On 09/11/14 at 13:16 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > I too value standardization. Judging by decisions taking by other large > distributions and upstream development, a fifth, "only support systemd > as init system" would thus have been the most sensible option. But for > political reasons that's sadly not realistic. > > I read option 3 as saying that all packages have to support the default > init system and *on top of that* they may, at the maintainer's > convenience, support other init systems.
Unfortunately that's not how the proposer for Choice 3 reads it. see subthread starting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00179.html and specifically https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/10/msg00181.html With Choice 3, a package maintainer can decide to support only an init system that isn't the default if the maintainer considers it a prerequisite for its proper operation and no patches or other derived works exist in order to support other init systems in such a way to render software usable to the same extent. Lucas
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