[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.08.2014 22:31, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Hi KiBi,
> 
> Am 11.08.2014 21:58, schrieb Cyril Brulebois:
>> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (2014-08-10):
>>> Package: ftp.debian.org
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>>
>>> As part of the transition plan to switch the default init system to
>>> system for Jessie, the priorities of the sysvinit and sysvinit-core
>>> package were lowered. See also [1]
>>>
>>> Please change them to
>>>
>>> sysvinit:admin/optional
>>> sysvinit-core:admin/extra
>>>
>>> This ensures that those packages are no longer installed by default for
>>> new installations.
>>>
>>> The new "init" metapackage [2] will make sure to pull in systemd on Linux
>>> and sysvinit-core on non-Linux.
>>
>> So this is done now.
>>
>> It really would have been nice to put debian-boot@ in the loop though.
>> Changing init when we're in the middle of trying to release d-i isn't
>> really something that has no consequences…

Btw, since "init" still pulls in sysvinit-core atm, lowering the
severity of sysvinit and sysvinit-core shouldn't have an effect for d-i.

If it does, could you elaborate, what happened/went wrong?


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