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Rumblings of a Debian Fork Amidst Anger Over systemd

posted by n1 on Sunday September 28 2014, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the yet-another-systemd-story dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Controversy is nothing new when it comes to systemd. Many people find this new Linux init system to be inherently flawed in most ways, yet it is still gaining traction with major distros like Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, and soon both Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux. The adoption of systemd for Debian 8 "Jessie" has been particularly fraught with strife and animosity.

Some have described the systemd adoption process as having been a "coup", while others are vowing to stick with Debian 7 as long as possible before moving to another distro. Others are so upset by what they see as a complete betrayal of the Debian and open source communities that there is serious discussion about forking Debian. Regardless of one's stance toward systemd, it cannot be argued that it has become one of the most divisive and disruptive changes in the long history of the Debian project, threatening to destroy both the project and the community that has built up around it.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @03:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @03:32AM (#99443)

    There was an upstream, look at the changelog,

    http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1_changelog [debian.org]

    sysvinit (2.87dsf-1) unstable; urgency=low

        * New upstream release.
            - Update patch 10_doc_manuals to drop the parts now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 11_doc_mountpoint now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 13_doc_telinit now included upstream.
            - Update patch 14_doc_fsf_addr to drop the parts now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 15_doc_pidof now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 16_doc_runlevel now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 17_doc_halt now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 25_last_sanify now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 26_last_ipv6 now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 27_last_usageopts now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 28_last_full-time now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 30_strip now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 31_build_warnings now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 40_selinux now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 41_utmp_64bit now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 42_utmpdump_retval now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 45_pidof_symlink now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 47_pidof_chroot now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 50_bootlogd_exitcode now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 51_bootlogd_syncalot now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 52_bootlogd_createlogfile now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 53_bootlogd_ttyB now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 60_init_race now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 61_init_msg now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 63_init_longer_procname now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 64_init_reexec_env now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 64_init_set_PATH now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 65_init_u_in_06 now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 66_init_emerg_tty now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 67_init_hddown now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 69_init_waiting now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 70_init_consoleopen now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 70_wall_ttyname now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 71_wall_hostname now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 80_killall_pidof now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 80_killall_sched now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 81_killall_avoid_init now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 82_killall_exclude_pids now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 82_killall_retval now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 83_killall_manref now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 84_killall_fuse now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 85_killall_safecwd now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 90_shutdown_H now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 92_sata-hddown now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 93_sulogin_fallback now included upstream.
            - Drop patch 95_halt-name now included upstream.
        * Modify shutdown(8) manual page to make it more clear when -c
            work (Closes: #374038). Based on text proposal from Dan Jacobson.
        * New patch 50_bootlogd_devsubdir to change bootlogd to recursively
            search /dev/ for the correct terminal device (Closes: #376406).
        * New patches 60_init_selinux_ifdef and 70_compiler_warnings to get
            rid of compiler warnings.
        * Rewrite rules to unpatch after the 'make clean' to get rid of binaries
            depending on debian patches.

      -- Petter Reinholdtsen Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:44:55 +0200

    Homepage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit [nongnu.org]

    If you think someone rewrites /sbin/init for every Linux flavour out there, you would not be correct.

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