On 30 Dec 2013, at 18:47, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > However, I think it's the best available approach that balances our ideals > as a project against the opportunities offered by a new init system. This > approach does permit full use of new init system features for jessie > except for eliminating /etc/default files (which I doubt we'd successfully > do quickly anyway), and opens up the full spectrum of use cases after > jessie. The cost is that packagers should merge contributed patches to > the init systems that they don't use. I don't think this is too much to > ask, nor do I think it will have serious effects on package complexity > based on my own experience configuring a package to work under all three > init systems I considered. >
I’m no longer a RM, but I would echo Russ’ comments here - an ordered transition is very important for Debian releases - and the size of this transition would be something that (in my opinion) would be very hard to achieve in one release cycle. Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
