[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#817795: sysvinit-utils - Contains pre-depends loop

[Bastian Blank]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.88dsf-59.3
Severity: grave

In sysvinit-utils or somewhere of it's dependency chain is a
pre-dependency/conflict loop, which apt is unable to break.  This breaks
the upgrade from Jessie.

| # apt install sysvinit-utils
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree       
| Reading state information... Done
| The following additional packages will be installed:
|   init-system-helpers libfdisk1 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libsmartcols1 libtinfo5 util-linux
| Suggested packages:
|   bootlogd sash dosfstools kbd | console-tools util-linux-locales
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   libfdisk1
| The following packages will be upgraded:
|   init-system-helpers libncurses5 libncursesw5 libsmartcols1 libtinfo5 sysvinit-utils util-linux
| 7 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 215 not upgraded.
| Need to get 0 B/1.816 kB of archives.
| After this operation, 882 kB of additional disk space will be used.
| Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
| E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package sysvinit-utils:amd64 due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.

Bastian

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