[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#825937: sysvinit-utils: Please drop startpar dependency

[Sven Joachim]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.88dsf-59.4
Severity: wishlist

With the "init" package no longer Essential, it is possible to remove
init, sysvinit-core, sysv-rc, initscripts and insserv from minimal
chroots.  However, startpar remains because sysvinit-utils depends on
it.

Could you please drop the dependency which AFAICS was only necessary for
smooth upgrades from Wheezy to Jessie?  It seems sufficient that sysv-rc
depends on startpar.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.34
ii  libc6                2.22-9
ii  startpar             0.59-3
ii  util-linux           2.28-5

sysvinit-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests:
pn  bootlogd  <none>
pn  sash      <none>

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