[debian-mysql] Bug#891409: mariadb-server critically dependent on systemd (making angband.pl/debian usage really awkward)

[lkcl]

Package: mariadb-server
Severity: important

first thing: please do not just close this bugreport as "well you're using
unauthorised repositories, so go screw yourself".  it's not funny, and
also the entire purpose of angband.pl/debian is to properly test that
*when* people disable systemd (by installing sysvinit for example), the
package *actually* properly works.

the level of insanity associated with systemd permeating its way insidiously
into pretty much absolutely every package under the sun continues with
mariadb.

i wish there was a way to say that without implying that it was an extremely
bad decision... but there isn't.

can you *please*, for god's sake, create a build profile for mariadb which
*specifically* creates parallel packages with a "-nosystemd" prefix, that
includes building dh debian/rules with "--without systmed" in them.

i tried modifying mariadb to build it.  the build *actually failed* with
a gcc hard segfault due to the system it was being built on (a VM) only
being allocated 0.75GB of RAM [and 16GB of swap].

there are *genuine and legitimate reasons* why people choose not to use systemd,
that were completely ignored by the "vote".

no we cannot be expected to abandon debian and go with devuan (the conversion
is too time-consuming and risky).

no we cannot be expected to abandon debian and go with *BSD
(same reasons *and* it's far too different anyway).

no it is not really acceptable either to expect developers to convert
*entire applications* to NO LONGER USE MYSQL.

no it is not acceptable to FORCE experienced sysadmins onto systemd when
they look up the CVE mitre database and see quite how many security
vulnerabilities there are.

please for god's sake understand and accept that this is not going to go
away, ever, not this year, not this decade, not the decade after that.
the requests to support systemd-less debian are going to be absolutely
and unremittingly relentless, year after year.

these requests *can* be ignored... or, a build profile created (for packages
that have been forcibly made to depend on systemd) which does *not*
depend on systemd.



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