Breaking init swtich: was Re: sysvinit_3.14-2_source.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

[Matthias Geiger]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:06, Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:
>Lorenzo,
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>Thanks for highlighting this.
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>On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 05:18:31PM +0100, lorenzo wrote:
>> Is this intended?
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[...]
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>I also see a possible small benefit.  If individual packages to declared they
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> Provides: init
> Protected: yes
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>the contentious init package could disappear and alternative inits would not
>need to convince the systemd maintainers that they achieve whatever standard.
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>Best wishes
>
>Mark
>
Hi,
does this mean (as far as I understand it) if all packages Providing: 
init would have set Protected: yes that I could still switch e.g. openrc 
for runit ? If not, I agree that this should be documented.
Really appreciate your work, Mark.

best,

werdahias