Bug#926316: systemd: Installing the systemd package switches the init system to systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.04.19 um 20:34 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org
> <mailto:biebl at debian.org>> wrote:

>     I have no idea how common that is, so maybe an alternative could be to
>     move the libpam-systemd Recommends from systemd to systemd-sysv
>     (alongside the existing libnss-systemd).
> 
> 
> Makes a lot of sense to me.
>  
> 
>     WDYT? Is it too late in the release cycle to make such a change?
> 
> 
> I don't know. Most likely we would need a tight dependency on systemd,
> to ensure at least one pacakge Recommends libpam-systemd.

If we want to ensure that, we'd have to add a versioned systemd-sysv
dependency to systemd (or a versioned Breaks for that matter). Both are
problematic.
But I might be misunderstanding what you have in mind here.

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