On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> wrote: > - existing installations of older (pre-jessie) Debian may be > upgraded to our new standard init system systemd, but only > after the user has been suitably warned, e.g. via a debconf > propmpt at priority "medium" (i.e. not shown to novices) > (maintenance burden is on the package maintainers, plus a > possible team of volunteers, for the init scripts; maintenance > burden for the upgrade scenario is with the maintainers of the > affected packages (sysvinit and systemd, AIUI)) > => we promote our new default, but permit our users to choose > for themselves, if they feel they are technically skilled > enough to make this choice and live with the limitations > of a non-standard system; switching back and forth between > the two supported systems is always possible
I appreciate this as it is about freedom of choice. I think that it would be valuable for our users to keep the non-default init system working on Jessie for those who do neither intend nor need to switch to systemd. Cheers. -- Alessio Treglia | www.alessiotreglia.com Debian Developer | ales...@debian.org Ubuntu Core Developer | quadris...@ubuntu.com 0416 0004 A827 6E40 BB98 90FB E8A4 8AE5 311D 765A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAMHuwozJ+FMBSDczUYw9=+thycs93f2fthp+2acb_t39pag...@mail.gmail.com