Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie
* Darren Salt <listspam@moreofthesa.me.uk> [141130 14:17]:
> I demand that Stephan Seitz may or may not have written...
>
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:41:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >> On Nov 28, Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be
> >>> kept.
> >> I disagree: upgrades should get the default init system unless the
> >> system administrator chooses otherwise.
>
> > Of course not. syslog-ng was not replaced by rsyslog when Debian changed
> > the default syslog. The grub1 bootloader was not replaced when Debian
> > changed to grub2. If Debian changed from exim to postfix the existing MTA
> > would not be changed.
>
> > So keep your hands of the init system on upgrades.
>
> Seconded.
>
> FWIW, I'm using lilo. That's still available, maintained and working, and I
> see no reason to change: grub offers more complexity and more options, but
> lilo does exactly what I want/need of it.
Actually, no, it's not.
lilo appears to pass root=<device ID> (not name!, e.g. 803) under some
conditions, and apparently the i-t maintainers did not ever see this
because it's an uncommon configuration nowadays (and there's now an
open bug and good luck on getting that fixed in a reasonable way).
Uncommon configurations need people actually using them to find AND
fix bugs that are caused by such deviations from the common configs.
--
,''`. Christian Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
: :' : Debian Developer
`. `' 7D1A CFFA D9E0 806C 9C4C D392 5C13 D6DB 9305 2E03
`-
Reply to: