On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 19:26:49 -0400, Steve wrote in message
<20190706192649.246fd5ab@???>:

> My feeling that sysvinit is not in safe hands in the Debian project
> isn't based on the quality of sysvinit or its components. As a matter
> of fact, I never noticed any bugs or weird stuff with sysvinit during
> the 13 years I used sysvinit as my daily driver init (with occasional
> forays into upstart and daemontools). My feeling is based on:
>
> 1) Corporate profit motive for keeping systemd the only init in town.

..that's the only motive in town? ;o) ;oD
https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3F

.."why not put UEFI on armel, armhf, arm64 etc hardware?" ;oD
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/armel/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/armhf/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mips/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mips64el/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mipsel/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ppc64el/release-notes/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/s390x/release-notes/


> 2) The (insert your own noun epithet) of "FreeDesktop.Org".
>

> 3) Systemd's technological ability to sabotage all attempts at
>    alt-initting a computer.

>
> 4) The huge moving-target workload necessary because of #3.

..found my lan mirror messed up on last night's Debian Buster
release as "stable" moving Stretch to oldstable etc, my quick
skim found these gems:
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#postgresql-reindex
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes
https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2019/03/msg00030.html

...from:
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html


..another motive in town?:
5.3.7. evolution-ews has been dropped, AND EMAIL INBOXES USING
EXCHANGE, OFFICE365 OR OUTLOOK SERVER WILL BE REMOVED:
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#evolution-and-exchange
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926712#19

..5.3.8. Calamares installer leaves disk encryption keys readable:
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#calamares-creates-readable-key

..workaround limits that readability to the TSA et al? ;o)

--
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.