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| 2020-11-19 |
Debian developer seeks ruling on init diversity |
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About a year ago the Debian project voted on the subject of init software and init diversity. The outcome was that Debian would, as a project, focus its resources on using systemd while leaving the door open for people to support alternatives, allowing users to run a variety of init software. The winning option of the vote read: "The Debian project recognizes that systemd service units are the preferred configuration for describing how to start a daemon/service. However, Debian remains an environment where developers and users can explore and develop alternate init systems and alternatives to systemd features."
Matthew Vernon has raised the concern that developers working on alternative init software are being stonewalled by Debian's package maintainers, some of whom are removing alternative init support from their packages and refusing to accept patches which support non-systemd options. Vernon wrote to the Debian Technical Community looking for guidance: "I'm afraid the effect of this is that the maintainers of this package are making it impossible for other developers to enable support of sysvinit. There are people who will (and have) test compatibility changes, help with issues with sysvinit scripts, and so on, but those
efforts are in effect being stonewalled. The effect of this, and equivalent behaviour in some other packages, is that it is going to be impossible to make a useful Bullseye for users who want to use sysvinit." At the time of writing a response has not been published. |
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