On 10/16/2018 11:01 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:58:30AM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 9:42 AM Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: >>> It's currently at risk by a lack of maintainers for the sysvinit >>> package. >> >> Does this mean that Devuan is also at risk? > > I can merely speculate. I know very little about Devuan, but the > impression I have got in the last day (entirely via mails from other > people to debian mailing lists, I have not investigated myself) is that > they are short on people-power. (so is Debian, of course!) > > If sysvinit was removed from Debian, than this would increase the amount > of work for Devuan quite significantly, because lots of individual > Debian packages that currently implement sysvinit support would slowly > start not to, and Devuan would have to patch support back in, over time. > > This would be more work, IMHO, than if interested parties collaborated > to support the sysvinit package and keep it in Debian. >
Hopefully, both parties (Debian/Devian) will come back to there senses and will find a way to accomodate supporting Systemd and an alternative init daemon. -- John Doe