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



On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 21:36 +0000, Nick Phillips wrote:
[...]
> Debian has a good and hard-earned reputation for not messing up
> sysadmins' changes; upgrading to systemd - however wonderful it is (and
> I confess to having no opinion on that) - without at least a debconf
> prompt of a reasonable priority telling them what is about to happen and
> offering a bailout, is guaranteed to lose us reputation and users.
[...]

I do agree that at least some kind of high-priority notice is needed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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