On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:46:51 AM Erik Christiansen wrote:
Ah, the chains may yet be thrown off, then.
My understanding is that this GR will try and make packages not depend on system, it explicitly doesn't change the fact that new installs of Jessie will have systemd. Of course this asks those packages that do depend on systemd (and are not covered by the exceptions) to not do so, and asks maintainers to accept such patches, but someone still has to write and test them. Discussion of this GR finishes 5 days before the Jessie freeze with a voting period TBC and if we allow 1 week for that the vote will be 2 days after the freeze. https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003 So either: * it'll be too late to affect Jessie due to the freeze rules or: * it'll delay the release whilst dependencies are changes and any Rc bugs introduced are fixed * Jessie will ship without the dependencies but with new non-RC bugs or: * all the patching and testing will be done without impacting the timeline and without contravening the rules of the freeze. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC