-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 03:49:09PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 07:01:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > >> Eh? You *do* have a choice of which init system to run; many people > >> running Debian are still using sysvinit, myself included. The system > >> handles this just fine; if you file a bug report via e.g. reportbug, > >> it will automatically detect which init system you're running and > >> include that information in the bug report. > >> > >> What you don't have is a choice *in the installer* of which init > >> system to *start out with* ... > > > I've never been a Debian developer. What would the admin team do if > > someone forked the installer to add that option and submitted it as a > > variant? > > Forking und submitting is not the main part. Maintaining it for the > forseeable future is.
To which I might add: Ian Jackson and Benda Xu are maintaining it. Two months ago, Ian posted here a call for testers. To those vocal people: feel like helping out? Having this option tomorrow might depend on you! regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAljiXPQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbz/QCeMzr543Oshn7ubxem+7KcLyEX 9TwAn0dp0NBFjbF2aO3zrySM8ss46G+o =CPvd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----