Bug#1055463: sysvinit-core: Please entirely remove SysVinit

[Thorsten Glaser]

(getting OT…)

On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>Am Mo., 6. Nov. 2023 um 21:09 Uhr schrieb Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:

>> Debian is about choice, not about spoon-feeding users and leaving them
>> without choice in many places like at least one well-known Debian
>> derivative does.

Yeah, I wish.

>You must be stuck at 2004. Debian has been Canonical's changing room since then.

The mksh package is STILL suffering from Canonical’s dash package
and its maintainers and the release managers ignoring RC bugs in
that that prevent mksh from sanely taking over /bin/sh for way
too long ☹

>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>A: Top-posting.
>Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

So indeed!

bye,
//mirabilos
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Support mksh as /bin/sh and RoQA dash NOW!
‣ src:bash (429 (458) bugs: 0 RC, 295 (315) I&N, 134 (143) M&W, 0 F&P) + 210
‣ src:dash (87 (101) bugs: 0 RC, 48 (51) I&N, 39 (50) M&W, 0 F&P) + 62 ubu
‣ src:mksh (1 bug: 0 RC, 0 I&N, 1 M&W, 0 F&P)
dash has two RC bugs they just closed because they don’t care about quality…