Control: severity -1 wishlist

On 07/25/2014 16:19, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> "init" metapackage is marked essential, even though none of the inits
> are currently essential. There are environments in which no init is
> needed, e.g. chroots and minimal/exec-only containers (like
> docker). Also one shouldn't be making 3 inits transitively essential,
> when they currently are not.

They are already transitively essential:

   Package: sysvinit
   Version: 2.88dsf-53.2
   Essential: yes
   [...]
   Pre-Depends: sysvinit-core | upstart | systemd-sysv

init is intended to replace the sysvinit package; it doesn't change
anything about init systems being essential or not.

Ansgar


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