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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Michael Biebl, long time maintainer of systemd for Debian (2010 or earlier, based in changelog.Debian.gz), is taking undetermined holidays from packaging it. The e-mail was short [freedesktop.org]:

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 [github.com] 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 [archive.is] 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 they don't still grok the attitude of projects like this?

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