Recent systemd stretch backport breaks sysvinit

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 22:00 -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> On a system running stretch-backports and sysvinit, the recent systemd
> backport introduces a conflict with systemd-shim.
> 
>   Package: systemd
>   Version: 239-7~bpo9+1
>   Breaks: ... systemd-shim (<< 10-4~), ....
> 
> There is no systemd-shim version 10-4 available either in sid or
> experimental.  The latest is 10-3.
> 
> Upgrading systemd would result in systemd-shim and sysvinit-core being
> removed.  See transcript, below.
> 
> I think this kind of breaking change is not correct for backports.

While backporters must ensure that the dependencies of backported
packages can be met in stable+backports, there is no requirement that
they must be coinstallable with all the same packages as the version in
stable.

systemd-shim is not present in testing and will probably not be in the
next release.  So you should either help to fix the RC bugs in systemd-
shim or prepare to use systemd as pid 1 wherever you need to run other
systemd daemons.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken


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