Debian May Need To Re-Evaluate Its Interest In 'Init System Diversity'

'"Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman has shared his August 2019 notes
where he outlines the frustrations and issues that have come up as a
result of init system diversity with some developers still aiming to
viably support systemd alternatives within Debian," reports Phoronix:
Stemming from elogind being blocked from transitioning to testing and
the lack of clarity into that, Hartman was pulled in to try to help
mediate the matter and get to the bottom of the situation with a lack
of cooperation between the elogind and systemd maintainers for Debian
as well as the release team. Elogind is used by some distributions as
an implementation of systemd's logind, well, outside of systemd as a
standalone daemon. Elogind is one of the pieces to the puzzle for
trying to maintain a modern, systemd-free Linux distribution.

Various issues were raised that are trying to be worked through albeit
many Debian developers face time limitations and other factors like
emotional exhaustion. Hartman noted in his August notes, "I think we
may be approaching a point where we need to poll the project -- to
have a GR and ask ourselves how committed we are to the different
parts of this init diversity discussion. Reaffirming our support for
sysvinit and elogind would be one of the options in any such GR. If
that option passed, we'd expect all the maintainers involved to work
together or to appoint and empower people who could work on this
issue. It would be fine for maintainers not to be involved so long as
they did not block progress. And of course we would hold the
discussions to the highest standards of respect."'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/09/21/042213

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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