Bug#746577: closed by Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (Re: Bug#746577: systemd-sysv: for upgrade safety, systemd-sysv and sysvinit-core must be coinstallable)

[Zack Weinberg]

Control: reopen -1

> You didn't show any actual breakage, so closing the bug report.
> If you can show us of actual breakage caused by the switch to
> systemd where the system will not boot, we will certainly deal
> with it.

I believe you have missed the point of the bug report.  This is not
about specific cases that break; any known specific case that breaks
can presumably be dealt with in the package metadata and/or scripts,
it is a simple matter of programming.  This is about providing a
*safety net* for all of the cases that we don't find out about until
it is too late to handle them in an automated manner.  It is my
contention that the best way to do that is to require an extra, manual
action to switch from sysvinit to systemd, decoupled from package
upgrades.

Reopening. I will escalate this to policy if I have to, but I hope I
don't have to.

zw