Control: reassign -1 release-notes Hi Tom,
On 22 June 2015 at 12:08, Tom LAREDO <tom.lar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: systemd-sysv > Version: 215-17+deb8u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > The "halt" command behaviour has changed between Debian Wheezy and Debian > Jessie. On Wheezy (running sysvinit), when you run "halt", it stops OS and > then disconnects > power. On Jessie (running systemd), it just stops OS and then hangs. > If you're on a virtual machine, you're able to see messages like: "Failed > to finalize DM device, ignoring" and "System halted" but the Virtual Machine > just hangs with OS off and VM still running. Yes, halt and poweroff are not the same thing, although sysvinit did not respect this distinction. Already filed as #760923 and tagged wontfix: >> A good reason why this will not be changed by us is that it is desirable >> to maintain compatibility with other Linux distributions. > I took a look to the release notes and didn't notice anything about this > behaviour change. > The documentation seems not to make difference between using halt, > poweroff or shutdown -h now: > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch08s01.html.en This doesn't look good, though, as halt is almost never what you want. Reassigning to the release notes. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
