[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] [Piuparts-devel] Need help with a particular piuparts run

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> writes:
> We could make init-system-helpers fake-essential (similarly to ucf,
> dbconfig-common and adduser), at least when testing for proper cleanup.
> Unfortunately init-system-helpers depends on perl ... which seems to
> pull in a lot.
Is that an actual dealbreaker? I figured lots of stuff is implemented in
Perl in Debian, code is compact and small (in bytes).

If nothing else helps, we could re-implement it in C, though that sounds
like a lot of pain for such a utility.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael