Bug#769747: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

[Martin Pitt]

Hello all,

Josselin Mouette [2014-11-17 19:38 +0100]:
> This decision has been made in gross violation of constitution §6.3.6,
> being summoned to override a maintainer’s choice while the solution was
> still under discussion.
> 
> I urge the systemd maintainers not to take it into account.

TBH, I think this was blown way out of proportion. I already switched
the dependencies around yesterday in git. It's a rather harmless
change after all -- a no-op for any existing system, regardless of
whether they have systemd-sysv or sysvinit installed. And on upgrades,
libpam-systemd is *not* meant to be the package that decides which
init system you end up with IMHO -- that should be the job of a
meta-package like "init" or other means (and there's still a pending
discussion whether and how to upgrade existing wheezy machines to
systemd).

If other systemd maintainers want to keep discussing this dependency
issue, please do (but it seems we are just losing them in dangerous
quantities!), but I see absolutely no point in this personally.

Martin

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