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We've now had several years of essentially declining to make a decision and trying to see if the project can muddle through, and while I feel somewhat vindicated by the fact that this didn't immediately fall apart and has sort of worked, I think it's becoming increasingly untenable. We now have contributors who are far-removed from the original debate and who may have only used a systemd-based Debian system and we do not have clear project consensus that sysvinit support is mandatory in new packages, so the support is starting to bitrot, and given the lack of clear project guidance, no one is clearly empowered to prevent it from bitrotting.

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I think it was the right thing to do to refuse to make a clear long-term decision at the time, when the project had just gone through a bruising and awful argument. Now that we have some distance and have seen how the ecosystem has subsequently evolved, I think it's time to circle back and, hopefully with more accumulated wisdom, a bit of emotional distance, and a bit more calm, make the deferred decision.