Bug#727708: Resolve impasse by focusing on requirements for smooth upgrade

2014-02-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
At the risk of being yet another unhelpful member of the peanut gallery, I believe I see a way to resolve the impasse regarding the "T" and "L" options on the previous draft resolution. I'm not a DD but I have used unstable as my principal desktop OS since 1998, I've administered a handful of

Bug#727708: Resolve impasse by focusing on requirements for smooth upgrade

2014-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: > People have made various assertions about how difficult it would be to > port the necessary systemd components to run with some other init system, > or to create independent compatible implementations, but *no one has > actually done

Bug#727708: Resolve impasse by focusing on requirements for smooth upgrade

2014-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> People have made various assertions about how difficult it would be to >> port the necessary systemd components to run with some other init >> system, or to create independent compatible implementations, bu

Bug#727708: Resolve impasse by focusing on requirements for smooth upgrade

2014-02-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> People have made various assertions about how difficult it would be to >> port the necessary systemd components to run with some other init system, >> or to create independent