Bug#1038903: initscripts: orphan-sysvinit-scripts needs to be a prerequisite, not optional.

[Matthew Vernon]

Hi,

On 23/06/2023 02:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Nothing for orphan-sysvinit-scripts, which *really* surprises me,
> as I’m certain we discussed this earlier.

You may be remembering bullseye? After quite a lot of wrangling, we got 
a short note added to the release notes[0] and installation guide[1] 
both of which basically pointed to the wiki[2].

> Hmph. It took me about 20 minutes to find where the source repo
> for the release notes is and orphan-sysvinit-scripts indeed shows
> up nowhere in there. Wasn’t it discussed on the mailing list? It
> really ought to be there.

I don't recall any discussion about bookworm release notes; I think if 
you'd have asked me I would have said that Recommends: should be enough 
for most cases!

I don't feel inclined to try and get a change into the release notes, 
since it was a lot of effort for bullseye, but happy to eyeball a patch 
if someone else feels keen. Sorry.

Regards,

Matthew

[0] 
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#inits-xx
[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s05.en.html#idm2887
[2] 
https://wiki.debian.org/Init#Changing_the_init_system_-_at_installation_time