Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on
> init systems"):
>> On what grounds do you think it was a mistake? As soon as someone talked
>> to the maintainer in question and asked them to re-add support, support
>> was almost immediately re-added.
>
> If the TC had said something earlier, to set the right expectations,
> the problem would probably have never been introduced in the first
> place. That's not clear to me at all. Given the broad perception based on http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 that upstart's future prospects are now quite limited, I would have been surprised if someone didn't eventually drop upstart-specific support in a package. To assume this portends broad abandonment of alternative init systems seems like a *huge* stretch... Bdale
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