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

[lorenzo]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:21:35 +0000
Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 01:17:55PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Would it help to declare init itself to be protected:yes instead of
> > the individual packages providing init?
> > Would that pernit changes that replace one init provider with
> > another?

init metapackage is already protected:yes

> 
> I don't believe that would prevent apt from switching init
> inadvertently.

yeah, unfortunately it doesn't.

Lorenzo
 
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> Mark
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