Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:46 +0000, Neil McGovern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:29:28PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 3) Heavily advertise (again in release notes?) that you need to install
> > sysvinit-core and add the pinning file _before_ dist-upgrading.
> >
>
> See
> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/issues.dbk?view=markup
> lines 170 to 223.
>
> Are you after something different? How about raising a bug against the
> release-notes package before asking tech-ctte to do something?
Is it possible to get access to edit those pages? By filing a bug
against release-notes?
> > 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.
To clarify: debconf "prompt" -> debconf "message", meaning that the
install is not to be aborted, only an informal message is written and
<hit CR to continue>. Is it possible to propose a text here?
> Alternatively: The only hard bit of the above is the creation of the
> release notes. All the rest is just a matter of coding.
YMMV
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