On Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 10:53:01 (+0100), Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Joe: [ in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg00700.html ] > > >Stretch? Systemd was default init for Jessie, the previous stable. > >Worse, an upgrade of Wheezy to Jessie would actually change the > >init system used, thus breaking almost every Debian server in the > >world.
This describes wheezy/7/sysvinit → change of init → jessie/8/systemd. > Nicolas George: > > >I must be lucky, none of the servers that I handle broke because of that. And I had no problem with upgrading like that either. > You are. Every single Debian 7 system with systemd that I upgraded > to Debian 8 hit Debian Bug #774153, meaning that the upgrades did > not complete unattended. That is a different process with which I have no experience, never having bothered to run systemd on wheezy. It was advertised IIRC as a technology preview so I'm not sure it would be wise to have moved servers onto it. Cheers, David.
