[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#773895: Bug#773895: sysvinit: package to pin sysvinit during upgrades

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Michael Gilbert <mgilbert at debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> This is not a reasonable thing to ship in any package in the archive.
>
> There are other packages that already do this.

No, there are not. There is no package shipping files in
/etc/apt/preferences.d:

  coccia% zgrep etc/apt/preferences \
          /srv/ftp-master.debian.org/ftp/dists/unstable/main/Contents-amd64.gz 
  <no-output-here>

Ansgar