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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,298  

Debian Farm?

Hello:

Came up on this thread, referenced to in DNG this morning.

Interesting, but what will it lead to?

... propose to remove SysVinit completely from the next Debian
release, with appropriate checking routines at upgrade time, so upgraded
machines won't run into a "don't boot anymore" condition. This will make a
clear statement for everybody instead of the current ambiguity where individual
packages arbitrarily support SysVinit or not, at the mercy of their
maintainers.

Best,

A.

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 378  

Re: Debian Farm?

They tried that before, & lost a lot of their programmers, & users, & created a lot of bad blood!

Haven't they learned their lesson yet! - Linux is about freedom of choice!

Thankfully, it caused Devuan to be born in the first instance, if they do it again, many users will (possibly) ditch Devuan as well, if it isn't an easy job to continue using Debian as a base!

aluma

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Registered: 2022-10-26

Posts: 240  

Re: Debian Farm?

Quote from Debian Bug report logs - #1055463
"... Debian has been Canonical's changing room since then..."
Is this our future?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/ … p_details/

UnixMan1230

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Registered: 2023-10-21

Posts: 19  

Re: Debian Farm?

At some point or another, when Ubuntu becomes snap-only (they are releasing such a version for desktop for 24.04), its going to have a detrimental impact on Debian. Worse still, it may come to a point where Debian may have to be forked more completely, and not just a handful of packages like it is right now. That's gonna be a nightmare...