Bug#727708: Processed: block 726763 with 727708

[Cameron Norman <camerontnorman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

I *like* systemd, and I would still be very unhappy
if a routine aptitude upgrade (or even a dist-upgrade) of a system
currently running sysvinit suddenly resulted in running systemd without
some sort of critical debconf question or the like.

In my mind, the package to change init systems would still be separate from its respective init systems. So gnome would depend on org-freedesktop-login1, and the default provider for that virtual package would be (a) a systemd-shim like package if the default debian init system is not systemd or (b) systemd and init-systemd (changes the init line) if systemd is the default. Obviously, if the user has systemd *and* init-systemd installed already, logind would be provided by that.

 

Maybe we can handle this by having a package that changes the default init
system but have it throw a critical debconf prompt and fail to install if
installed noninteractively.

I undeservedly thought this was a given.

Thanks for the thoughts,

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Cameron Norman