On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:23:19PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:46 +0000, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:29:28PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > 1) Heavily advertise (release-notes?) that doing an upgrade from > > > wheezy/etc to jessie will give you systemd as init system and inform > > > about the apt pinning solution. > > > > > > 3) Heavily advertise (again in release notes?) that you need to install > > > sysvinit-core and add the pinning file _before_ dist-upgrading. > > > > > > > See > > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/issues.dbk?view=markup > > lines 170 to 223. > > > > Are you after something different? How about raising a bug against the > > release-notes package before asking tech-ctte to do something? > > Is it possible to get access to edit those pages? By filing a bug > against release-notes? >
https://www.debian.org/doc/cvs, though I suggest a patch would probably be better, and that should be a bug against release-notes. > > > Note that the only technical in the above is the creation of a debconf > > > prompt in pre/post-inst of the init package. All the rest is just a > > > matter of writing. > > To clarify: debconf "prompt" -> debconf "message", meaning that the > install is not to be aborted, only an informal message is written and > <hit CR to continue>. Is it possible to propose a text here? > > > Alternatively: The only hard bit of the above is the creation of the > > release notes. All the rest is just a matter of coding. > Indeed, my point was that 'just writing text' doesn't mean it happens - we've traditionally been very understaffed in that bit of the project. Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141126153726.gg17...@halon.org.uk
