On 10/05/14 05:26, Josh Triplett wrote: > If the maintainers of the packages involved have done their jobs well > (and they have), upgrading should be an entirely smooth process. Much > like upgrading to a new version of the Linux kernel or a new bootloader, > you won't actually get the new version until you reboot, so there may be > value in a "you need to reboot" reminder after finishing the upgrade, > but that's true for just about every Debian major release upgrade. > However, adding a new prompt *before* the upgrade just makes the upgrade > process that much less pleasant for everyone who *doesn't* actually hold > religious opinions about init systems, which in practice is a far > greater chunk of Debian users than those who do. In practice, upgrading > from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 will have a more noticeable impact on the user, > and we don't nag the user with a debconf prompt about that either, nor > should we. > > Upgrading from one Debian major release to another makes a large number > of substantial changes to the system; for example, it may replace > module-init-tools with the completely reimplemented kmod-based tools. > Those changes don't merit debconf noise either. >
This makes sense when what is replaced not longer exists on Debian (that are precisely you examples: GNOME2 or module-init-tools). *But*, when you are replace something that will continue to be on Debian and to be supported, then is a serious bug. This bug is like if tomorrow Debian decides that default MTA should be Postfix, and on upgrade you replace my MTA (Exim) with Postfix. I would scream to you very loud. The default has changed (systemd), but the previous default (sysvinit) is *not* gone. So you can't replace it on upgrades without asking the administrator first. Full period.
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