Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-12-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 29.11.2014 19:15, Svante Signell wrote: > Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs, > I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able > to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart! +1 -- mit freundlichen Grüßen -- Enrico Wei

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-12-04 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > In summary: > a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > kept. > b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf > message about alternative init systems. > > More detailed: > 1

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Darren Salt [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 wrote: > >>> a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > >>> kept. > >> I disa

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Darren Salt
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 wrote: >>> a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be >>> kept. >> I disagree: upgrades should get the default init sy

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
One claim is changed, see below. On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 12:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > In summary: > a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > kept. > b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf > message about alternative ini

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am 28.11.2014 15:55, schrieb Marco d'Itri: > > I have a system where the network connection is so important that the pppd > > is invoked via the inittab, which is a published interface of the init system and has been for decades. When an upgrade

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Urlichs writes: > Non-standard inittab entries should surely be displayed and warned about, > but IMHO that's not sufficient reason to not switch the other 99.99% > who never touched their inittab. In the server world, I'm pretty sure you are significantly underestimating the number of

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:00:42PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > > Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian changed > > > the default syslog. > > Note that syslog-ng was not the de

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:00:42PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Stephan Seitz wrote: Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian changed the default syslog. Note that syslog-ng was not the default, but sysklogd (which was) wasn’t replaced either. Thank

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian changed the > default syslog. Note that syslog-ng was not the default, but sysklogd (which was) wasn’t replaced either. Thankfully. > The grub1 bootloader was not replaced when Debian cha

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 28, Simon Richter wrote: > I disagree: This is not safe and can break systems. Everything is not safe and can break systems, so this is not a very compelling argument. > I have a system where the network connection is so important that the > pppd is invoked via the inittab, which is a pu

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 03:24:18PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > No, the ctte did not say that. We had a flamewar about that > > interpretation before. > > That was almost word by word from > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 11/28/2014 03:24 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> No, the ctte did not say that. We had a flamewar about that >> interpretation before. > > That was almost word by word from > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg0.html See [

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:41:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 28, Svante Signell 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.

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > No, the ctte did not say that. We had a flamewar about that > interpretation before. That was almost word by word from https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg0.html bye, //mirabilos -- >> Why don't you use JavaScript? I also

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 11/28/2014 03:16 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> I disagree: upgrades should get the default init system unless the >> system administrator chooses otherwise. > > I disagree with you, and so does CTTE, this time: they said > that existing installations

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Simon Richter: > I have a system where the network connection is so important that the > pppd is invoked via the inittab, which is a published interface of the > init system and has been for decades. When an upgrade installs > systemd, this machine will simply drop off the network. > > Other

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 28, Svante Signell 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. I disagree with you,

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Simon Richter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 28.11.2014 14:41, Marco d'Itri 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. I disagre

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-11-28 14:41, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 28, Svante Signell wrote: > > [...] >> b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf >> message about alternative init systems. > It would be totally unacceptable to waste the time of every Debian user > with pointless ad

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Martin Read
On 28/11/14 11:56, Svante Signell wrote: 3) Add information in release-notes on how to: - Upgrade from stable/testing/sid to jessie to avoid getting systemd-sysv installed (this should not strictly be needed if the ctte chooses to decide that upgrades will _not_ switch init) This part has alrea

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 28, Svante Signell 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. > b) New installs should get systemd-sysv as default init with a debconf >

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Svante Signell wrote: > the order of pre-depends for int init package should change from > Pre-Depends: systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart > to > Pre-Depends: sysvinit-core | systemd-sysv | upstart That would probably require changes in d-i to ensure that systemd is, inde