On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 07:17:14PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 06, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > > As it is now, we have a lot of people who are maintaining their own > > packages outside of Debian. Can we get enough support to reintegrate > > both the people and the code? > I will ignore for the time being the reasons why these packages are > outside of Debian, and focus on the obvious prerequisite. > As it is now, and as Simon is patiently trying to explain, sysvinit in > Debian is basically unmaintained because no Debian developer cares > enough about it.
Ian Jackson and Benda Xu are nobodies? (Somehow Ian mistakenly versioned an upload as NMU.) I can't think of any pressing issue (#872039 has bogus severity), the package is mature, and any recent breakage happened due to systemd changes. This is not to say all is fine -- the package really could take some extra work, but it is functional. Meow! -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory prices.
