Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:19:24AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > Yes, that would be my desired outcome: an affirmation that Debian wants to > > be "universal". This has been our greatest strength for years. > Its a strength that wasted an enormous amount of ressources. See > kfreebsd (which was actually really nice!) and Hurd, to name some > prominent examples. Taking this to the extreme, it is an enormous waste of resources to maintain both Debian and Ubuntu as separate entities. What differentiates us? > People should not be forced to waste their time, but also we should not > necessarily stop them if they want to do it. The problem is at the intersection when one person considers it a waste of their time when they are asked to integrate the work of another person, whose work is wasted if it is not integrated. > For me I think the only useful way would be to maintain all init-scripts > in a single package that gets pulled in with sysvinit. Whoever wants to > use and maintain it is free to do so. Initscript could actually be > installed using dpkg triggers or whatever else works. You are still missing the point. This is not a technical problem, and providing a technical solution... > (And at some time we can still move that package into an external > repository....). ... that essentially tells people to leave the project if they disagree with you is not a solution for a social problem, quite the opposite in fact. Simon
