On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:39:15PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Speaking of sysvinit, one problem with a direct upgrade from Wheezy to > Stretch is that there is no _package_ named sysvinit in Stretch, so you > will be left with the old sysvinit from Wheezy and have to do a manual > upgrade, e.g. like this: Moot argument. You don't *DO* a direct upgrade from wheezy to stretch in the first place. You go wheezy->jessie, and then jessie->stretch.