Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Thanks. I hereby call for votes on the text below.
> There are two options: > Y. Clarify decison and invite non-auto-switching proposals > FD. Further discussion > === > 0. We offer advice and make our views known (Constitution 6.1(5): > 1. The Technical Committee decision in February, selecting systemd as > the default init system for Linux, should not be read as a decision > that existing systems should be automatically switched to systemd. > 2. The Technical Committee has been asked to decide whether existing > Debian GNU/Linux systems should be automatically switched to systemd > during a dist-upgrade to jessie. > 3. We do not want to prejudge, interfere with, or contradict, the > General Resolution process on init systems which is currently > ongoing. Some of the GR options imply that automatic switching > (both during upgrades, and during leaf package installations) will > be necessary in at least some circumstances. > 4. For the moment, we invite concrete proposals for technical changes > which would arrange that 1. new jessie installations using Linux > would get systemd but 2. existing installations retain their > existing init system so far as possible. > 5. After the result of the General Resolution is known, we intend to > formally resolve the question of automatic switching of init > systems. Our decision on that question will of course be > consistent with the successful General Resolution option, whatever > that may be. > === I vote: Y, FD -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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