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Discussion for General Resolution on Debian's init system

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How would you vote?

In general, software may not require one specific init system to be PID 1.
39
83%
Package maintainers are strongly encouraged to add support for any init system, but are not required to.
3
6%
Debian packages may require a specific init system to be executed as PID 1.
2
4%
Things are working adequately and thus this General Resolution is not required.
3
6%
 
Total votes: 47

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s2pido
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Re: Discussion for General Resolution on Debian's init syste

#31 Post by s2pido »

With only one day remaining in the voting period, fewer than 500 (of the 1000+ DDs) have bothered to vote?
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initcoupling/

Is such a low participation percentage typical?

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Re: Discussion for General Resolution on Debian's init syste

#32 Post by saulgoode »

s2pido wrote:With only one day remaining in the voting period, ...
The voting period extends until the end of Tuesday, November 18th (UTC). https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003
s2pido wrote:... fewer than 500 (of the 1000+ DDs) have bothered to vote?
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initcoupling/

Is such a low participation percentage typical?
I was thinking it was progressing rather well, given there are still about five days left. It is, at a minimum, nice to see that the issue won't just be decided by a handful of advocates (regardless of their position).
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian Kernighan

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Re: Discussion for General Resolution on Debian's init syste

#33 Post by fruitofloom »

saulgoode wrote:
s2pido wrote:
s2pido wrote:... fewer than 500 (of the 1000+ DDs) have bothered to vote?
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initcoupling/

Is such a low participation percentage typical?
I was thinking it was progressing rather well, given there are still about five days left. It is, at a minimum, nice to see that the issue won't just be decided by a handful of advocates (regardless of their position).
You mean like in most other distributions, say Slackware, huh? :-)
Kidding aside this sure is way better
(I like the joke, but it is really just that: a joke. Perhaps a stupid one).

Still convinced the very best is to vote with the feet to put some pressure on Debian, to show that *that* is not what one has in mind when thinking of Debian. That will make them think, and only that (replacing systemd with sysv and pinning *systemd* including the libs *and* installing popularity-contest is another option, less strong and way too much work, imho).
Give me convenience or give me death.

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