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"everyone else" in this case is pretty much only the debian ecosystem because they insist on enforcing a serial lock policy from the 1980s. It's fine if Debian

"everyone else" in this case is pretty much only the debian ecosystem because they insist on enforcing a serial lock policy from the 1980s. It's fine if Debian wants to move at the speed of a Soviet committee but I don't think it should be expected (or would be healthy) for systemd to move at the same pace. A software developer's primary job is to develop software for their users, not to comply with a third party distributor that repackages their software.

tuckerman 1y ago
The beef isn't with systemd upstream which already has a very simple/boring workaround for this, it's with the debian package maintainer (some people here are wearing multiple hats). Really the whole raison d'etre of debian is move at this pace to prioritize stability/compatibility. If you don't like that philosophy there are other distros but a package maintainer's primary job is to repackage software for that distro (which presumably users have chosen for a reason), not comply with upstream.