Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:23:19PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> 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?
>
https://www.debian.org/doc/cvs, though I suggest a patch would probably
be better, and that should be 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.
>
Indeed, my point was that 'just writing text' doesn't mean it happens -
we've traditionally been very understaffed in that bit of the project.
Neil
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