They did a good job [LWN.net]

They did a good job

Posted Sep 19, 2015 14:21 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: They did a good job by MarcB
Parent article: How Debian managed the systemd transition

It would have been nice if the upgrade to systemd would have added 'nofail' to entries in /etc/fstab. That way, the old behaviour would be preserved for existing systems, in a way that is easy to disable once you read the release notes and decide you want the new behaviour.

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They did a good job

Posted Sep 19, 2015 15:16 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

One of their goals was to make an upgrade the same as a new install. Plus, who reads release notes in detail? Does Debian have a nice section for "breaking changes" and the like?

They did a good job

Posted Sep 19, 2015 18:36 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (2 responses)

Everyone who upgrades should read the release notes first. They mention this exact issue: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes...

They did a good job

Posted Sep 19, 2015 21:52 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

That is exactly what I was looking for :) . Bonus points if they give it as reading material in the upgrade tool (and ponies if they filter/sort it by packages you have installed that are affected).

They did a good job

Posted Sep 19, 2015 22:04 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Hmm, this looks interesting:

> Lack of security support for the ecosystem around libv8 and Node.js
"Don't use Debian's packages for deploying node.js-based services."

I wonder how many will ignore this :( .