This seems pretty clear: How will this work? In the short-term future, maintainers add systemd support to their packages. This does not imply dropping sysv

This seems pretty clear: How will this work? In the short-term future, maintainers add systemd support to their packages. This does not imply dropping sysvinit support. As outlined in my post about the transition, systemd service files can coexist with sysvinit scripts. In the mid-term future, both sysvinit and systemd are supported — this is the only way we can do a gradual transition, and Debian clearly does not want a flag day. In the long term, we could switch the default from sysvinit to systemd on Debian GNU/Linux, in case we agree that’s a reasonable decision at that time. Non-Linux ports will still use sysvinit. We can argue over the exact meaning of "switch to" (seems pretty pointless to me), but it seems fairly clear that in the near future nearly all debian users will be using systemd.