Ian Jackson's general resolution to prevent init system coupling has failed to pass, the majority vote deciding that the resolution is unnecessary. This means that not only will Debian's default init be systemd, but packages will not be required to support other init systems. Presumably, this means that using other init systems on Debian (without using systemd as a base) will not be possible without major workarounds, or possibly at all. It also leaves the future of Debian projects such as kFreeBSD unclear, as systemd is linux specific.
The vote results can be found here
The winners are:
Option 4 "General Resolution is not required"
(Score: 1) by Gravis on Wednesday November 19 2014, @03:04PM
attempts to excise the problem have failed. it seems like a good reason to fork.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Wednesday November 19 2014, @03:20PM
I found it much easier simply to adopt the far superior FreeBSD for server OS.