On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 11:27:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 06:14:30PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > ... (Note that the latter would work better if upstart stopped > > > conflicting with sysvinit, similar to how systemd can be installed > > > without being init.) > > > There does seem to need to be some work there. > > That has already been resolved in unstable, with the split of sysvinit > contents out of the Essential: yes sysvinit into sysvinit-core. (A > necessary precondition for switching to either systemd-sysv or upstart for > jessie.)
That solves one part of the problem, in that the package upstart conflicts with is no longer Essential; however, that still doesn't allow installing upstart without making it /sbin/init. A split similar to the one between systemd and systemd-sysv would make that possible, allowing users to try out upstart by setting init= on the kernel command line, and allowing packages to use upstart for purposes other than running it as init (for instance, for graphical session startup). - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
