Bug#940965: apt: Fails to find a solution for libgtk-3-0 and sysvinit-core

[lorenzo]

Dear apt maintainers,

> On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 12:23:01PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > That being said, being able to switch init systems without a pin is
> > a bug in the init system; init systems should set the Protected: yes
> > field so that they cannot be removed without explicitly running
> > 
> >     apt remove --allow-remove-essential sysvinit-core

Mmm, and what if the package is at the bottom of a dependency stack? do
you get all the stack removed as well?

> >     apt install/upgrade/... --allow-remove-essential sysvinit-core-
> > 
> >     (note that starting with 2.3.12/stable; --allow-remove-essential
> >      only applies to arguments; the solver itself cannot decide to
> >      remove essential packages anymore)

how a user is supposed to perform an init switch? use dpkg
--force-depends and manually fix the broken dependency stack without
the help of a resolver?

Best,
Lorenzo