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Michael Biebl, long-time maintainer of systemd for Debian (2010 or earlier, based on changelog.Debian.gz), is taking undetermined holidays from packaging it. The e-mail was short:
Will stop maintaining systemd in debian for a while.
What's going on is just too stupid/crazy.
This takes place after he discussed a bug in which he expected systemd to respect local settings, and not rename network devices:
@yuwata a default policy like /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link should never trump explicit user configuration.
Later he seems surprised about how things roll there:
I'm amazed that I have to point this out....
The issue is locked currently, and also archived just in case, so everyone can read the initial report and the replies he got.
Opinion: It seems distribution developers are starting to get the stick too, not just users with their "errors" (taken from a reply). Will distributions finally wake up or is that they don't still grok the attitude of projects like this? [Or is it something else? --Ed.]
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:48PM
That sounds very sane to me, to be honest.
I bought three of the Olimex boards because Debian's website advised me that they could be booted and used productively without using any non-free firmware. The only problem area is the still-incomplete free support for the MALI GPU and, running them headless, I haven't had much problem in that area.
Specifically, systemd has given me no problems. it doesn't take a lot of memory, doesn't slow things down much*, and gives features in return for what it takes away.
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* A great experiment to test faster/slower wrt systemd is to install Bochs and get it working (alchemy required), then boot, say, Debian wheezy (no systemd), then boot Debian jessie (with systemd). The inherent dirt dog sluggish slowness of the emulation amplifies the effect of anything that takes a longer or shorter time and gives you a better overall picture.