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



* Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> [140909 11:16]:
> On 09/09/2014 16:59, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I don't believe we should switch init systems on upgrade without at least
> > a prompt,
> 
> I think there are good arguments for both switching to the new default
> and not:

Perhaps, but not without giving the sysadmin a choice, unless you have
handled all the cases where the sysadmin has modified configuration
files such as /etc/inittab and scripts in /etc/init.d.

...Marvin


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