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Bazaar on the slow track

Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 13, 2012 2:52 UTC (Thu) by guillemj (subscriber, #49706)
In reply to: Bazaar on the slow track by dlang
Parent article: Bazaar on the slow track

> > Debian is not using upstart now by default.

That's right.

> actually, if I do an upgrade of a Debian system, it prompts me to convert to upstart from a sysv init. If this isn't using upstart by default, what is it?

The upstart package in Debian is not Essential, it's not on the base system either (Priority extra), and there's nothing except for live-config-upstart depending on it. So if it's being pulled in on an upgrade that's most probably some third party package doing that, either that or it got selected for upgrade at some point?


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Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 13, 2012 2:59 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

I ran into it on the raspberry pi debian image. installing it and doing apt-get update; apt-get upgrade includes getting a question along the lines of "this upgrade will switch you to a dependancy based init, this cannot be reversed, do you want to do this" I'm assuming that this is moving to upstart.

Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 13, 2012 3:00 UTC (Thu) by clint (subscriber, #7076) [Link]

No, that is insserv, which comes from SuSE.

Bazaar on the slow track

Posted Sep 13, 2012 20:21 UTC (Thu) by Tester (subscriber, #40675) [Link]

And interestingly, OpenSuSe is also going the systemd way

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