[Bug 1357713] Re: ifupdown and upstart can be removed

[Martin Pitt]

ubuntu-minimal depends on upstart and ifupdown, so supposedly you
removed that. This is really not a supported configuration.

As for upstart: Debian has a new essential package "init" which depends
on systemd-sysv | upstart | sysvinit. We could decide to adopt that.
Moving to init-system-helpers for that.

As for ifupdown: ;Most desktops, phones, etc. use dynamic network
configuration with NetworkManager, there is no essential need for
ifupdown.

But still, of course you can shoot yourself into the foot by randomly
removing packages. So just don't do that then :-)

** Package changed: upstart (Ubuntu) => init-system-helpers (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: init-system-helpers (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: init-system-helpers (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ifupdown (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Summary changed:

- ifupdown and upstart can be removed
+ Use essential "init" package to ensure that an init system is present

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Title:
  Use essential "init" package to ensure that an init system is present

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “init-system-helpers” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 dev with ifupdown 0.7.48.1ubuntu4 and upstart
  1.13.1-0ubuntu3 and currently it is possible to remove ifupdown and
  upstart as they are not essential packages or any essential/manual
  package does depend on them. Here is the output:

  root at ubuntu:/# apt-get remove ifupdown
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    ifupdown upstart
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  After this operation, 895 kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
  Abort.

  
  As I know Ubuntu wants to change from upstart to systemd in the future so removing upstart may be fine but I'm wondering why ifupdown can be removed (wouldn't this remove the ability to create a network connection?).

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