* Darren Salt <lists...@moreofthesa.me.uk> [141130 14:17]: > I demand that Stephan Seitz may or may not have written... > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:41:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> On Nov 28, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > >>> kept. > >> I disagree: upgrades should get the default init system unless the > >> system administrator chooses otherwise. > > > Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian changed > > the default syslog. The grub1 bootloader was not replaced when Debian > > changed to grub2. If Debian changed from exim to postfix the existing MTA > > would not be changed. > > > So keep your hands of the init system on upgrades. > > Seconded. > > FWIW, I'm using lilo. That's still available, maintained and working, and I > see no reason to change: grub offers more complexity and more options, but > lilo does exactly what I want/need of it.
Actually, no, it's not. lilo appears to pass root=<device ID> (not name!, e.g. 803) under some conditions, and apparently the i-t maintainers did not ever see this because it's an uncommon configuration nowadays (and there's now an open bug and good luck on getting that fixed in a reasonable way). Uncommon configurations need people actually using them to find AND fix bugs that are caused by such deviations from the common configs. -- ,''`. Christian Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> : :' : Debian Developer `. `' 7D1A CFFA D9E0 806C 9C4C D392 5C13 D6DB 9305 2E03 `- -- 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/20141130145221.GA1307@sx.local