Bug#925524: init-system-helpers: Please provide a stretch backport for debhelper 12~

[Ferenc Wágner]

Package: init-system-helpers
Version: 1.48
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainers,

Debhelper compat level 12 is stable and available in stretch-backports,
but uses the --skip-systemd-native option of invoke-rc.d, thus adds
init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~) to misc:Pre-Depends.  This is necessary
to fix https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887904.
However, the resulting pre-dependency can't be satisfied in stretch,
making the resulting binaries of compat 12 packages uninstallable in
stretch.  Could you please provide a stretch backport of a suitable
init-system-helpers version to accompany debhelper 12~, or do you
recommend some other solution to this problem?  (I suppose installing a
newer version of init-system-helpers manually to a stretch system
wouldn't break it, but it's rather inconvenient even if you confirm it.)
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.