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Title    One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd
Date    Monday January 21 2019, @07:14AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the their-way-or-the-highway dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/21/042251

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.]


Original Submission

Links

  1. "e-mail was short" - https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2019-January/041971.html
  2. "he discussed a bug" - https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11436#issuecomment-454535318
  3. "archived" - http://archive.is/8MZrJ
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31265

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