[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#585398: sysv-rc: sysv-rc fails to convert at each upgrade

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Tollef Fog Heen]
> Could you please provide a way for me to tell sysv-rc to keep its hands
> off my configuration as I'm not using sysvinit and would rather keep it
> that way?  Alternatively, make it not try to convert on each upgrade,
> but just try once.

It is intentional to ask on every upgrade, to try to get everyone over
to the new dependency based boot script ordering, and away from the
legacy ordering.  The only way to avoid this question on every
upgrade, is to fix the problems blocking migration and do the upgrade.

Staying with the legacy boot ordering is not a sustainable alternative
for Debian.

What kind of problems are detected?  I plan to change the migration
check in the next upload to only report removed but not purged
packages as problems if there are loops or other dependency problems
with the boot ordering, and expect this will make it possible for more
people to migrate without any manual fixing.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen