“kdbus is not dead” asserts Lennart Poettering at a systemd conference
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For quite a while, the systemd/kdbus developers have been trying to pull an end-run around mainline by getting distributions to include it in their kernels. The idea was "even if mainline rejects it, we'll still get kdbus in". And now suddenly they changed their mind and asked Fedora to yank it.
That may not mean kdbus is dead, but it does mean it's on the back burner and isn't going to be used for quite a while.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
For some of the architectural chicken-and-egg-at-shutdown-and-startup reasons that systemd developers need its API not to be dependent from a user-space subsystem:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10491489
The article points to the recent announcement that kdbus has been pulled from Fedora:
> Strictly speaking, he said "Kdbus ist nich tot"
"nich" might be either a typo by JdeBP, or a pronunciation respelling of a badly (dialectally) pronounced "nicht" (though then I'd also have expected "is" instead of "ist"), but either way it makes no semantic difference...
...so JdeBP probably meant the language. However the HN article title didn't say "says" but "asserts", which makes it independent of the language.
What might be getting lost in translation here is that in English language news it's customary to use "says" when the quote is actually a translation, without noting that it is. See e.g. news articles about world leaders ("Putin says Y") that don't note that he actually said X in Russian, it was just translated into Y.
Now I'm curious, is it customary to note that such quotes are translated in German language news?
No.
(But that's ok, because it's unsurprising that foreign politicians don't speak in german.)
(Additions and deletions are often marked with [foo] and [...], just as in english news.)