On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 09:19:10AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > I think it is fair to ask Julien as the bug submitter to engage here > either by coming up with new options that none of us have explored or by > coming up with specific problems. Alternatively it would be reasonable > for him to ask someone else who has more time to dedicate to this issue > to step in. > So one thing I think we should ensure is we don't end up uninstalling systemd without an explicit user choice.
The "init" package has the "Important: yes" control field which as I understand it tells apt to behave like "Essential: yes", except for not trying to install the package if it is not installed. That's not quite enough for our purposes, because apt would still be allowed to replace systemd-sysv with sysvinit-core, but maybe systemd-sysv could get that flag as well? Julian didn't seem to find the idea crazy when we brought that up on irc. Cheers, Julien
