The Ubuntu maintainer has upgraded the Systemd package

Jul 9, 2015 14:35 GMT  ·  By

Ubuntu 15.10 is now in the middle of the development cycle, and developers are upgrading packages left and right. One of those packages is the systemd component, which has been recently made default in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu announced that it was adopting systemd shortly after the Debian project decided to make the switch, but the transition for Canonical's OS has been much quieter and with a lot less drama. No one threatened to fork Ubuntu without systemd, and no one really cared, which is weird since Ubuntu is the most used Linux operating system.

In any case, it's interesting to see that Ubuntu is getting all the latest versions of systemd, right after their launch. The systemd maintainer for Ubuntu, Martin Pitt, has been very active, and he has made sure that the project is not falling behind. For example, the new systemd 222 arrived in Ubuntu just days after its official release.

"systemd 222 landed in Debian unstable yesterday, and just made it through britney's CI and landed in Ubuntu wily. The upstream semaphore CI, the "daily trunk builds" with complete autopkgtest coverage, and pre-announcing the impending release really helped immensely! Packaging 221 and 222 was child's play compared to the earlier versions," said Martin Pitt on Google+.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) is expected to land on October 22.