Package: libpam-systemd Version: 204-10 Severity: important For safety of upgrades from wheezy to jessie, the process of upgrading packages and installing new ones *must not* change either the currently- running init or the init that will manage the system on the next boot. The sysadmin needs an opportunity to check over any local customizations and then explicitly make the switch. Currently, libpam-systemd tries to pull in systemd-sysv, which conflicts with sysvinit-core, which violates this principle.
The desired state for jessie is that systemd-sysv and sysvinit-core should be coinstallable, with an alternatives-like mechanism for deciding which package actually provides init (if this can be done with actual alternatives for /sbin/init, that would be ideal, but I suspect it cannot be that simple). I will be filing another bug against systemd-sysv and sysvinit-core to that effect, but as an immediate stopgap measure to prevent breakage, libpam-systemd should swap its or-dependency on systemd-sysv|systemd-shim so that systemd-shim is first. That will prevent upgrades of *unrelated* packages from changing the running init system. severity:important to block testing propagation; systems running testing with unattended upgrades enabled are one of the situations that need the extra safety net of a guarantee that a transition to systemd will not occur without deliberate sysadmin action. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libpam-systemd depends on: ii libc6 2.18-5 ii libcap2 1:2.22-1.2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.2-1 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3 ii multiarch-support 2.18-5 ii systemd 204-10 ii systemd-shim 6-3 libpam-systemd recommends no packages. libpam-systemd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org