Bug#727708: Vote on Bdale's ballot plus GR

Why not just vote on Bdale's ballot plus the GR override provision? There are 4 members who apparently are going to rank systemd first with the GR provision, and Bdale casts the deciding vote, so systemd wins. Once systemd's victory and upstart's defeat is established, then discussion on everythi

Bug#727708: Depending on an init to be pid 1 == depending on a kernel to be running

I think the issue of whether packages can depend on a specific init to be pid 1 is essentially identical to whether packages can depend on a specific kernel (Linux vs FreeBSD vs Hurd) to be running. I'm not sure what the exact Debian policy is for that, but just copying that seems to me the mos