Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

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Subject: Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

From: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 14:51:13 -0800

Message-id: <20140208225113.GL5088@teltox.donarmstrong.com>

Reply-to: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>, 727708@bugs.debian.org

In-reply-to: <87d2ixcrla.fsf@rover.gag.com>

References: <87d2ixcrla.fsf@rover.gag.com>

On Sat, 08 Feb 2014, Bdale Garbee wrote: > - - - start ballot - - - > > We exercise our power to decide in cases of overlapping jurisdiction > (6.1.2) by asserting that the default init system for Linux > architectures in jessie should be > > D systemd > > U upstart > > O openrc > > V sysvinit (no change) > > F requires further discussion > > Should the project pass a General Resolution before the release of > "jessie" asserting a "position statement about issues of the day" on > init systems, that position replaces the outcome of this vote and is > adopted by the Technical Committee as its own decision. > > - - - end ballot - - - I vote D > U > O > V > F. I also agree that given that while the additional questions of how packages are able to depend or rely on the default init system is important, it is not necessary to resolve that question to determine which system is going to be the default init system, as in no ballot yet has anyone changed their D/U ranking on the basis of which of the T, S, or L options were being voted for. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the young author through mental contact with type metal. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67)

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