Bug#756023: init: Move "Essential: yes" from init to init-system-helpers

[Felipe Sateler]

On 5 May 2016 at 10:18, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>> Do we miss anything to start with moving the "Essential" field?  I think
>> /bin/pidof was mentioned which is provided by sysvinit-utils; however
>> sysvinit-utils will continue to stay quasi-essential as util-linux has
>>   Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-59.1~)
>> and util-linux is an essential package.
>
> The util-linux maintainer is very much trying to get rid of that
> dependency (I can't find an online reference, but discussed on IRC),
> and it is not done only because apt currently does not deal
> particularly well with versioned Breaks "loops" involving essential
> packages.


And I found it: it was tried and reverted
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786469

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler