Bug#925473: Tomcat 9 requires Systemd

[Thorsten Glaser]

Patrik Schindler dixit:

>a BIG and HUGE "THANK YOU" for your service to the community!

You’re welcome.

>> You wrote you need only tomcat and prefer pinning.
>
>Is there another way?

Not that I know of.

>> I’ve not had much success with pinning myself, other than to tell apt
>> to never install systemd at all, and to force specific versions for
>> packages. But maybe you figure it out and will share it for everyone?
>
>Almost the same for me. Tomcat from your repro smells newer to apt-get,
>so this got installed. I know I should make sure that this is enforced
>but I'll postpone that to a later point in time.

The version is higher, and apt will install the highest version it will
find. You need the pinning only to prevent the other packages from the
repo to be considered. (Though for the “lts” component this is only
things I would upload to Debian myself, were it not for the stable or
oldstable-backports-sloppy (closed 1 year after stable release, i.e.
before LTS/ELTS) upload rules.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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