Bug#760923: tentative patch

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Vincent,

Vincent McIntyre [2015-06-23 17:09 +1000]:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:24:10AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Jun 23, Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcintyre at csiro.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > +systemd (221-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> > This has not changed in 221: even if we really want to document this in 
> > NEWS.Debian then the message must not be displayed to everybody who has 
> > already installed a version of systemd which has this behaviour.

There's no particular version to attach this to really, I'm afraid
(see below).

> +The behaviour of 'halt' has changed
> +===================================
> +
> +systemd changes the behaviour of the 'halt' command.
> +This command halts the machine but no longer turns off the power -
> +to do that, use 'shutdown -h' or 'poweroff'.
> +The old behaviour is regarded as a bug by upstream and won't be changed
> +in this package, so as to maintain compatibility with other Linux distros.
> +

This sounds confusing -- systemd has never changed the behaviour of
"halt"; sysvinit misimplemented halt, so the change is between
changing init systems, not upgrading any particular version.

How about something like

"halt" behaviour
================
Under SysV init the "halt" command erroneously powered off the
machine, same as "poweroff". Under systemd the "halt" command does not
turn off the power -- to do that, use "shutdown -h" or "poweroff".

?
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