On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:31:26AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-07-24 08:16:43 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > I don't think it follows at all that because there are init systems > > which conflict with sysvinit, Debian does not support multiple init > > systems. > > But in such a case, sysvinit shouldn't be an essential package (and > packages that need it should thus have an explicit dependency on it), > since it isn't really needed in a working Debian system.
sysvinit will drop the essential status in wheezy+1. Just lack of time and testing the consequences prevented this being done already. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120724105617.gq25...@codelibre.net
