Sad to read Debian is walking to be single init software, unlike other more open distros. This is not "The universal operating system" direction.
__________ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 15/10/18 a les 06:56, Petter Reinholdtsen ha escrit: > [Thorsten Glaser] >> The QA page says: “The BTS contains patches fixing 49 bugs (63 >> if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.” >> This is indeed a sad state. What does the team “Debian sysvinit >> maintainers” say about those? > > Nothing. There is in reality no team any more. There seem to be just > me, who is lacking both the required spare time and interest to do good > job, but still try to fix the gravest problems while waiting for someone > with time and interest to adapt the packages. The packages have been in > need of adoption for several years, as can be seen from for example > <URL: > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-sysvinit-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org > >. > > 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. >