Re: Stretch to Buster with sysvinit

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Tue 17 Sep 2019 at 13:29:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 06:25:05PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > Upgrades from wheezy to jessie did not change the init system because
> > libpame-systemd had the dependency
> > 
> >   systemd-shim (>= 8-2) | systemd-sysv
> 
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#issues-systemd
> 
>   The Debian upgrade from wheezy to jessie will by default migrate
>   your init system from the SysV to systemd. Depending on your system
>   and setup, you may need to do some manual changes. We have detailed
>   known issues in Section 5.6, “Upgrading installs the new default
>   init system for Jessie”.
> 
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#systemd-upgrade-default-init-system
> 
>   Jessie ships with systemd-sysv as default init system. This package
>   is installed automatically on upgrades.
> 
> and so on.  I am of course referring to the *default* behavior here,
> not to people who went out of their way to retain sysvinit.

Thanks for the reminder and being so clear. Insofar as it's important,
(and it isn't) I think I installed systemd-shim on one system prior to
doing the upgrade.

-- 
Brian.