Ansgar Burchardt - 15.10.18, 16:03: > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 06:56:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > I believe Andreas Henriksson is right, the packages are going to > > > be > > > removed unless someone with time and interest show up to take care > > > of > > > them. A good start would be to split initscripts off from the > > > sysvinit binary packages, to let them live separate lives. It > > > will be sad, but the proper way for Debian to handle unmaintained > > > packages in a sad state. > > > > Is it worth interested parties reaching out to the Devuan project > > regarding person-power for sysvinit maintenance? > > Please no. I don't think it would help Debian to have toxic people > maintain packages. > > (As an example, Devuan's infobot has fun facts like this one: > "<+infobot> 'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, > destructive, and generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. > ``this cancer is extremely poettering'' [...]")
Calling people "toxic" IMHO is quite similar to what Devuan's infobot displays: Both are attacks on persons. And both are not helpful. Anyway, I will make Devuan people aware of this discussion. Let's see whether someone likes to cooperate. -- Martin
