Bug#993679: [init-system-helpers] Upgrading from Jessie to Bullseye fails

[Roman Mamedov]

Package: init-system-helpers
Version: 1.60
Severity: normal

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcwidget3 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bsdextrautils dirmngr gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapparmor1 libapt-pkg6.0
  libassuan0 libboost-iostreams1.74.0 libbpf0 libcap2-bin libcwidget4 libdns-export1110 libelf1 libfastjson4 libip4tc2 libip6tc2
  libisc-export1105 libksba8 liblognorm5 liblz4-1 libmd0 libmnl0 libncurses6 libncursesw6 libnetfilter-conntrack3 libnftnl11 libnpth0
  libprocps8 libreadline8 libseccomp2 libsigc++-2.0-0v5 libtinfo6 libuchardet0 libutempter0 libxapian30 libxtables12 libxxhash0 libzstd1
  ncal pinentry-curses
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils aptitude aptitude-common base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils bsdutils ca-certificates coreutils cpio cpufrequtils
  cron dash dbus debian-archive-keyring deborphan debsums dialog diffutils dpkg eatmydata ethtool findutils gettext-base gnupg gpgv grep
  groff-base gzip hostapd hostname ifupdown info init init-system-helpers initscripts insserv install-info iperf iproute2 iptables
  iputils-ping iputils-tracepath isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common kmod krb5-locales less libacl1 libattr1 libbsd0 libcap2 libcpufreq0
  libdbus-1-3 libdebconfclient0 libdpkg-perl libeatmydata1 libedit2 libestr0 libexpat1 libgnutls-openssl27 libidn11 libiw30 libkmod2
  liblzo2-2 libmount1 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libnfnetlink0 libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200 libopts25 libpcre3
  libpcsclite1 libpipeline1 libpopt0 libsasl2-modules libslang2 libsmartcols1 libsqlite3-0 libss2 libstdc++6 libsystemd0 libtimedate-perl
  libtinfo5 libudev1 libusb-0.1-4 libusb-1.0-0 libustr-1.0-1 libuuid1 libwrap0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6
  libxmuu1 login logrotate lzop man-db manpages mawk mount mtr-tiny nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term net-tools netbase
  netcat-traditional ntp ntpdate openssl procps readline-common rsyslog screen sed smartmontools ssh startpar sysv-rc sysvinit-core
  sysvinit-utils tasksel tasksel-data tcpd time traceroute tzdata ucf udev usbutils util-linux vlan wget whiptail wireless-tools
  wpasupplicant xauth xz-utils
148 upgraded, 46 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/57.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 44.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 17942 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../init-system-helpers_1.60_all.deb ...
Unpacking init-system-helpers (1.60) over (1.22) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/init-system-helpers_1.60_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d', which is also in package sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/init-system-helpers_1.60_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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With respect,
Roman