On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 06:19:09PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: init > Version: 1.34 > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 at 13:12:42 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Before systemd arrived, it was possible to have a chroot free from > > init packages (not needed to build packages). > > This was the case in jessie due to the transitional packages necessary > to move from sysvinit to systemd-sysv|sysvinit-core. In stretch, it > should now be possible again: init is non-Essential, and has dropped > from Priority: required to Priority: important.
Unfortunately, as of today, it is not anymore possible to upgrade from jessie to stretch: # apt-get upgrade [...] # apt-get dist-upgrade [...] 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. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove sysvinit-utils:amd64 (2) I can reproduce this on a jessie system with very few packages installed and this single line in sources.list: deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch main If this problem is the result of fixing this bug, I would rather keep the bug unfixed and leave things as before. Thanks.
