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



On 2014-09-09 18:23:58, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Together with the /lib/sysvinit/init fallback binary in sysvinit and
> > (and optionally my patch getting merged for grub [1]), this should
> > provide for a hopefully seamless upgrade experience.
> 
> Agreed, this seems like the best plan: avoid prompting in the common
> case, prompt in cases that might cause problems, and provide an easy
> fallback.
> 
> In particular, given that /etc/init.d/* scripts are typically conffiles,
> we could easily detect if they've been directly changed, and if so, warn
> about edits (with a list of edited files) and point to information on
> applying those changes to the corresponding systemd services.

What about cases when init scripts doesn't come from any package but are
crafted by hand?

Those can not be easily detected and compared for changes, as they are not
coming from any package and they may (and in some cases are) quite important
for boot process.
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