Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

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Subject: Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]
From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:16:12 +0200
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:07:18 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
<matthias@urlichs.de> wrote:
>Vincent Danjean:
>> If I recall correctly, when Debian switched the default MTA, upgrades
>> did not change the already installed.
>
>You cannot have an MTA without configuring it, and nobody even tried to
>implement auto-migration of the old default mailer's configuration to the
>new one.

Actually, the exim4 maintainer scripts parsed the exim 3 configuration
files to give its debconf prompt a locally relevant meaning.

Greetings
Marc
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