On Thursday 18 September 2014 17:21:49 Mike Bird wrote: > sysvinit is excellent but not necessarily "staggeringly marvelous". > However compared to a distro committing suicide by systemd (or > upstart) it is the preferred choice until something newer and > better can be adopted. So why did Debian dismiss it before the discussion ever got to TC? Question, not rhetorical retort. If systemd and Upstart are both undesirable, and the TC only considered Upstart and systemd, then the narrowness or otherwise of the voting margin is irrelevant. Lisi