On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:33:56 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 14 oct 14, 10:40:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 > > > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your > > > production servers with sysvinit. > > > > Okay, for now, that is until more packages decide that they can't do > > without systemd. > > Debian testing (Jessie) will freeze on 5. November. That's about > three weeks from now. No serious package maintainer is going to > introduce major changes now. Andrei brings up an important point: We should enter phase two, where we: 1) Boycott (and be vocal about it) Gnome 2) Pressure all other upstreams into a "no systemd dependencies" pledge, and to the best of our abilities, boycott (and be vocal about it) those who don't comply. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141014110645.725a1...@mydesq2.domain.cxm