-release asked us to discuss a possible solution among ourselves so we can propose it to them. But the problem is not clearly defined yet. So I thought maybe we can do some progress by discussing what the problem is.
Here's what I think of as a problems that may need to be fixed by reaching an agreement with -release: 1. Some application-level software is growing hard dependencies on SystemD or other Linux-specific components (e.g. X->udev, gdm3->systemd). 2. Sometimes this software provides alternative setups, but they're poorly maintained (if at all). We're often stuck (not really) maintaining them and the result is bug-riden user experience. (e.g. X->hal, gdm3->consolekit) 3. Too many testsuites fail for us. Sometimes because they found genuine bugs in our port, but often just because of portability bugs in the tests themselves. Maintainers often respond by disabling the testsuite (or allowing it to fail). This worries -release because it jeopardizes their QA efforts. Please comment... -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ec16bb.1020...@debian.org
