The 'compelling' reason was "sysv has a ton of problems". Upstart was an earlier...

		vacri on Feb 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian committee members vote for systemd as init ... The 'compelling' reason was "sysv has a ton of problems". Upstart was an earlier attempt to resolves those problems - whether it does those well or not doesn't mean that there wasn't a compelling reason to create it.