Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Below is a proposal for a (partial) solution for the upgrade problem of
keeping the installed init system:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765803

This has been discussed privately among selected users/DM/DDs and since
the deadline for the ctte is December 4, it has to be known to them (and
-devel for comments).

(another partial? solution is to change order of the (pre-)depends of
the init package, as proposed in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762194
with preliminary results in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762194#142)

1) Heavily advertise (release-notes?) that doing an upgrade from
wheezy/etc to jessie will give you systemd as init system and inform
about the apt pinning solution.

2) In case you missed doing the above, you get a debconf prompt when
installing the init package that if you want to keep sysv/openrc/etc
continue with the installation, get systemd-sysv installed and after
that install sysvinit-core and do the pinning. (This is suboptimal, many
peoples systems could be broken at first reboot, we will find out in due
time).

Another issue is upgrading from testing/sid?/etc (different status) to
jessie:
3) Heavily advertise (again in release notes?) that you need to install
sysvinit-core and add the pinning file _before_ dist-upgrading.

Note that the only technical in the above is the creation of a debconf
prompt in pre/post-inst of the init package. All the rest is just a
matter of writing.

Sincerely!