At the time, canonical was throwing its weight around and essentially bullying Debian upstream repos. Around this time, there was a mass exodus of the Debian leadership over this kind of thing.
The old guard of Debian wasn’t as… enthusiastic about systemd either, but look what they use now.
wut
It’s true, and it was a huge pain in the ass:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/223855
Interesting read. It sounds like that issue came upstream from Debian not Ubuntu though.
At the time, canonical was throwing its weight around and essentially bullying Debian upstream repos. Around this time, there was a mass exodus of the Debian leadership over this kind of thing.
The old guard of Debian wasn’t as… enthusiastic about systemd either, but look what they use now.