[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Why is wheezy chroots switching to systemd on upgrades?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> It look like someone who have discussed the topic on a mailing list a
> rarely read (debian-devel@) concluded that upgrades should switch to
> systemd.  I am not conviced that is a good way to conclude in this
> matter, and wonder if we should consult the technical committee to
> check if this is what they intended.

Should the GR show that we can depend on sysvinit remaining a supported [by
the rest of the project] init system after jessie, there is no reason to
switch existing users automatically.

OTOH, if it shows that it is useless to put much effort on sysvinit for
jessie+1 because we will get no support from the rest of Debian, it is best
that we switch the vast majority of the users to systemd now:  Debian will
need the test coverage to flush out the hard issues while there is still
sysvinit support in Debian during jessie.

Also relevant: there's an open bug and some initial work done about adding a
choice in the installer to select which init system.

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  Henrique Holschuh