On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to be > > removed unless someone with time and interest show up to take care of > > them. A good start would be to split initscripts off from the sysvinit > > binary packages, to let them live separate lives. It will be sad, but > > the proper way for Debian to handle unmaintained packages in a sad > > state. > > Is it worth interested parties reaching out to the Devuan project > regarding person-power for sysvinit maintenance?
Please no. I don't think it would help Debian to have toxic people maintain packages. (As an example, Devuan's infobot has fun facts like this one: "<+infobot> 'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is extremely poettering'' [...]") Ansgar