[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#760456: sysvinit: Please consider providing a backported "sysvinit-core" package

[Ralf Jung]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

please consider providing a backported version of sysvinit which contains a
"sysvinit-core" package.

The rationale for this is as follows: When mixing stable (wheezy) and testing
(jessie) on a system, "apt-get dist-upgrade" tries to pull in the new "init" package
as it is Essential in testing, hence the testing packages could depend on it. However,
there is no way for the sysvinit in stable to satisfy this dependency, as there's no
sysvinit-core package. I could of course upgrade sysvinit to testing, but I'd
rather not do that with such a core package. Hence it would be useful if
the stable sysvinit could satisfy the dependency of the Essential "init" package.
I imagine a dummy package, but a Provides may work just as well.

Kind regards
Ralf


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-042stab092.3 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  debianutils     4.3.2
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
ii  libc6           2.13-38+deb7u4
ii  libselinux1     2.1.9-5
ii  libsepol1       2.1.4-3
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-41+deb7u1

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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