Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution
proposal"):
> Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > I hereby propose the following resolution:
> > 1. Support for sysvinit is mandatory in jessie.
>
> I agree with this in principle, but I think this loses quite a bit of
> nuance and is likely, phrased in that way, to be used as a stick to beat
> maintainers with in ways that aren't helpful. I'd rather wait until we
> decide what the default will be and then try to work out exactly what sort
> of sysvinit support we want given that. The details of any future support
> plan are going to vary.
I am not willing to wait. I think it is too important to make this
clear right away. Otherwise the main default decision risks a
stampede to create "facts on the ground".
> > 2. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the
> > foreseeable future, and so long as their respective communities
> > and code remain healthy. Nothing outside of an init system's
> > implementation may require a specific init system to be pid 1.
>
> I will probably be voting against this. [...]
I take it then that you have no wording changes which would change
your mind.
Ian.
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