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Can someone eleborate as to what this is because of? has the chairman of the technical committee made some controversial decisions or something?
by crashandburn4 13y ago
Can someone eleborate as to what this is because of? has the chairman of the technical committee made some controversial decisions or something?
- akerl_ 13y agoThis is connected to a large debate on the future init system of Debian, among other related issues (if packages should be required to support non-default init systems, for one). This is the thread in question: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html
- cwyers 13y agoIt's a response to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203364
- sandGorgon 13y agoTo be very specific it is about the "L" option in the init system debate. Basically, Ian was pushing for coupling the question of "which init system" to the "requiring specific init allowed/not allowed " option for packages. This meant that though default would be systemd, a package could not depend on systemd explicitly. Bdale called for votes by choosing to vote for "which init system" first. His justification is here - https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00281.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00281.html Fundamentally, since Gnome and KDE have already made the decision to depend explicitly on systemd (and since this was not blocked by the vote), this means that upstart will be almost completely eliminated from Debian.