Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie
Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> writes:
> Non-standard inittab entries should surely be displayed and warned about,
> but IMHO that's not sufficient reason to not switch the other 99.99%
> who never touched their inittab.
In the server world, I'm pretty sure you are significantly underestimating
the number of systems with a custom inittab, although automatic handling
of all the various ways to spawn a useful serial console would cut down
the numbers somewhat. But we're pretty late in the release cycle to do
enough analysis to try to figure out what those all are. (Where I've
worked, this has always been custom, replacing /etc/inittab with a local
configuration file, so the analysis isn't trivial.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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