Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Don Armstrong wrote:
> Quoting myself from
> http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20141021184619.GQ28201@teltox.donarmstrong.com
> with modifications.
>
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote:
> > Personally I think the biggest issue with Jessie at present is the
> > inability to do a clean install with sysvinit rather than systemd as
> > the init system.
> That preseeding doesn't do this is a bug, it's filed (#668001), and the
> patch for it was just written on October 17th. Because Debian is going
> to freeze for Jessie in under 7 *hours*, the maintainers aren't going to
> apply this patch this close to release without extensive testing.
>
> Furthermore, the effect of this patch is trivially obtained by using a
> late_command to remove systemd-sysv and install sysvinit-core.
>
> If you actually want to see this patch applied to the version of the
> Debian installer that Jessie will release with, you should coordinate
> with the nice people in #debian-boot to see what type of testing they
> would want to see before they are willing to vet the patch.

Well, actually - I attempted to do just that, and received no response.  
Someone else did some testing and reported it against the bug.  Still, 
no comments back from anyone.

Miles Fidelman

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