Bug#1087322: diffoscope installable with sysvinit-core again

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Nov 19 19:36:33 GMT 2024


Control: close 1087296

Thanks to the systemd maintainers for relaxing the dependency in
systemd-ukify.  I can now install diffoscope in sid without apt
trying to change the init system.

FTR I still need to explicitly specify:

  apt install diffoscope sysvinit-core colord

since apt fails to observe that polkitd and therefore colord are in
fact installable.  But it works when I insist.  That seems to be a bug
in apt, probably related to #940965.  The best workaround is to use
apt preferences pinning as recommneded in
 https://wiki.debian.org/Init#Changing_the_init_system_-_at_installation_time

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