Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Svante Signell
Package: tech-ctte Severity: Important When upgrading an old system installing certain packages, like network-manager and gdm3 systemd-sysv is installed changing the init system. These packages depend on libpam-systemd, which depends on systemd-sysv | systemd-shim. If systemd-shim is not installed

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 octobre 2014 13:32 +0200, Svante Signell  : > In summary, the CTTE is asked to make a decision on debconf warnings on: > 1) Changing init system on upgrades (including sid) > 2) Inform about alternate init systems for new installations 2 is quite far-fetched. Why not a debconf warning to te

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Clearly, the initsystem is by far, much more relevant than nano, vi, jre, mail, x-www-browser, etc... It is a big deal. Item 2 is important. And not to only make popularity contest more fair... It should not only inform about alternate init systems, but also, give people the opportunity to chose b

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Cameron Norman
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 18 octobre 2014 13:32 +0200, Svante Signell : > >> In summary, the CTTE is asked to make a decision on debconf warnings on: >> 1) Changing init system on upgrades (including sid) >> 2) Inform about alternate init systems for new installa

Re: Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 08:20:33PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > Clearly, the initsystem is by far, much more relevant than nano, vi, jre, > mail, x-www-browser, etc... It is a big deal. Why? I'm sure the majority of users would notice a change in x-www-browser or sensible-editor before they'd n

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Hi Svante, Svante Signell writes: > In summary, the CTTE is asked to make a decision on debconf warnings on: > 1) Changing init system on upgrades (including sid) > 2) Inform about alternate init systems for new installations For issue 1, I think it's clear that you're asking the CTTE to overru

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello, systemd maintainers. We (the Technical Committee) have received a request to override a maintainer decision around whether systems are switched from sysvinit to systemd on upgrade. However, it's not clear to me that an actual decision has been made that we would need to override. There ha

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:27:11 -0700 Cameron Norman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 18 octobre 2014 13:32 +0200, Svante Signell : > > > >> In summary, the CTTE is asked to make a decision on debconf warnings on: > >> 1) Changing init system on upgrades (incl

Bug#765803: tech-ctte: Ask before changing init system when upgrading to jessie and Inform about init systems when installing jessie

2014-10-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ I would usually add debian-boot@ in Cc so that my peers get into the loop but let's not add extra noise. ] Russ Allbery (2014-10-18): > Svante Signell writes: > > > In summary, the CTTE is asked to make a decision on debconf warnings on: > > 1) Changing init system on upgrades (including sid)

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:59:54 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > When one of you has a chance, could you update this bug with the current > thinking around how to handle upgrades, around the ordering of > dependencies in libpam-systemd, and some of the other ideas (such as > attempting to detect systems w