On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 15:18, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
sadly though they over-rode common sense *and blatantly disregarded the results of a major poll/vote* by making systemd the default.
What vote is that? There have been two Debian "General Resolutions" about systemd. The result of the first one in 2014 [1] was "General Resolution is not required" meaning that the topic wasn't appropriate for a vote at the time.
The second one was done in 2019 [2]. The winning option was "Systemd but we support exploring alternatives". Further to disprove your point, the very last option was "Support for multiple init systems is Required".
In conclusion: No, the Debian developers did not "disregard the result of a major poll/vote" about systemd.
[1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003 [2] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002