Debian TC vote on init system coupling

*shrug* If they need it, they can write it. For sysvinit it took me about a weekend (IIRC - that was 16 years ago) to write and debug and most of that consisted of writing the marshalling code. That they already have, apparently, so it ought to be a few hours worth of work, from start to finish, including building and testing. Not my problem, seeing that I'm not using systemd for a lot of reasons. And no, for me the lack or presence of such reexec functionality isn't anywhere near those.

Don't read into that comment anything other than a surprise at the decision to use an on-disk file for passing the state. All software is full of WTFs of that kind and the life is too short to fix ones in the stuff one doesn't use. I have more than enough fun with the kernel and with the userland I do use, TYVM. If I run across something of that kind in e.g. OpenBSD kernel, or djbdns, I'll probably comment on it and move on. Same as with systemd. Has nothing to do with my (lack of) liking of their authors, before anyone goes into that - if I run across something fishy in glibc or openssh, I *will* do more than commenting, no matter how little I am fond of Ulrich and Theo resp.

Same reason why I won't contribute to GNOME or emacs - I don't use either, they are not within 0.01% of programs that are pleasant to read, I'm not interested in developing them and it's not even what I'm paid for. Bugs in e.g. nvi are something I will deal with (and had done so in the past), something similar in aforementioned emacs... apt-get remove emacs\* solves them all nicely, as far as I'm concerned.