Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

ARM port is not a big deal in itself, it's just another Linux architecture to support (and Debian was running on m68k at that time already).

kFreeBSD and Debian-HURD are much more complex - they involve ripping off the kernel and replacing a significant part of userspace infrastructure. And for no real gains but with a significant price.

Quite a number of other distributions are adopting systemd now and Debian really risks to be left behind (even more than usual, I mean). Then there's the question of KMS, DRI2 and Wayland - graphics stack is rapidly evolving right now and kFreeBSD/HURD are almost not evolving at all in this area. It's already getting more and more complex to run FreeBSD on recent video cards (I have to support our app on FreeBSD and I don't like it at all).