Package: general Severity: normal If debian is remotely serious about keeping non-systmed use an option, is should support a nosystemd build profile. There's no other real way to guarantee that packages don't use it. Sure they don't *have* to link against it, but in practice many will and this is the obvious clean way to ensure that none do so.
As a long-time user I'm highly interested in this feature, and preventing others from working on it for idealogical reasons is indefensible. Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.5.emp3 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)