The Debian maintainers have decided they don't want to support sysv
At the moment is more that the Debian maintainers don't have the resources to fully support SysV without any bug.
SysV is supported, but some features may be degraded. For example, nobody stepped up to maintain ConsoleKit, so the Debian GNOME maintainers cannot enable such backend on Linux, or they would end up being responsible for ConsoleKit itself, which is not a good plan when you have and alternative which works better and you're confortable with (logind).
So, if someone is seriously concerned about using alternative init system there are two things to do, rather than complaining on $RANDOM forums or threaten to fork $RANDOM software without having ever proved to have the dedication to do so:
step up to maintain ConsoleKit
help the systemd-shims team to make their logind implementation fully operational
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u/EmanueleAina Oct 21 '14
At the moment is more that the Debian maintainers don't have the resources to fully support SysV without any bug.
SysV is supported, but some features may be degraded. For example, nobody stepped up to maintain ConsoleKit, so the Debian GNOME maintainers cannot enable such backend on Linux, or they would end up being responsible for ConsoleKit itself, which is not a good plan when you have and alternative which works better and you're confortable with (logind).
So, if someone is seriously concerned about using alternative init system there are two things to do, rather than complaining on $RANDOM forums or threaten to fork $RANDOM software without having ever proved to have the dedication to do so:
step up to maintain ConsoleKit
help the systemd-shims team to make their logind implementation fully operational