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Debian General Resolution to Prevent Init System Coupling Fails to Pass

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 19 2014, @11:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-hope-we-don't-regret-this dept.

novak writes:

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"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 19 2014, @06:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 19 2014, @06:29PM (#117780)

    There will be no choice. Every time systemd proponents assure us that they would NEVER do something, they then do it. If debian or other large distros don't maintain a system which works without systemd, it will soon be almost entirely unworkable.

    People weren't driven away by threats, they were driven away by bureaucracy, mostly. The dark days started when Debian thought GNOME3 should go in stable. Remember how long they had KDE3 in stable because KDE4 was buggy? Several years after slackware, even. The quality has been diving for some time and they just informed us that they will not be slowing down that trainwreck.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @03:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @03:49PM (#118138)

    Every time systemd proponents assure us that they would NEVER do something, they then do it.

    I didn't know the reborn Walter Ulbricht [the-berlin-wall.com] develops systemd. ;-)