Bug#760458: Please add an alternative to 'init' which is satisfiable on stable

[Michael Biebl]

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Hi David

Am 04.09.2014 um 13:25 schrieb David Kalnischkies:
> At the moment, the new essential init package has a
>   Pre-Depends: systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart
> which causes some trouble for stable users with testing sources as apt
> wants to install this new essential package on their systems resulting
> in all sorts of "funny" solutions in a (dist-)upgrade done to move to
> a new point release for example (just imagine: both systemd-sysv and
> upstart exist in stable, while sysvinit-core doesn't …)
> 
> (The reason that apt does it is simply that every testing package
> potentially implicitly depends on this essential package, so it has to
> install it or otherwise testing packages might explode – aptitude
> doesn't do this at the moment as arguable, it happens more often that
> it creates a problem like this one where none existed previously than it
> solves a problem, but regardless of how much we like it or not it is
> still something we have to deal with one way or another)
> 
> 
> I /think/, hence the subject, that the easiest solution would be to have
> an init package in testing which can be installed on stable without
> bringing in systemd/upstart if the init system itself isn't upgraded.
> Something like:
> 
>   Pre-Depends: systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart | sysvinit (<< 2.88dsf-44)
> 
> [the versionnumber is a guess from the introduction of -core]

Given that jessie is released and our current stable distro, do you
still see any value in keeping this bug report open?


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