Hi,

Samuel Thibault (2014/09/09 11:20 +0200):
> Michael Biebl, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 11:09:00 +0200, a écrit :
> > halt is not supposed to poweroff the machine, that sysvinit's halt did
> > that is a bug that was never fixed.
> 
> Ow. I've been using halt since like birth...
> 
> That change of behavior, even if actually a "bug fix", is very likely to
> hit a _lot_ of people, as one can see a lot of people talking about halt
> or shutdown -h on the net (all my coworkers are used to use it).
> 
> I'd say it's _really_ worth a NEWS item, when migrating from sysvinit to
> systemd.

Indeed! Please, make the change as clear and noisy as possible.

Personnally, I'd even introduce a warning ialog at package upgrade. It's
really worth it IMO.

Sébastien.


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