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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 20 2014, @03:16PM
I ask you to spearhead the debian fork effort. You've been with Debian long enough and deep enough to know what it takes to run a distro. You may be surprised to find there are enough new hands willing to pitch in (who till now mostly been users) to preserve Debian(-nesque) distro going without systemd (and other similar ) affliction.