Breaking init swtich: was Re: sysvinit_3.14-2_source.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, lorenzo wrote:

>> --allow-remove-essential
>
>note that for both apt and dpkg essential != protected

How about you just try it? (I have no sid at hand.)

>apt-get --allow-remove-essential install runit-init

This cannot work, you need to also say sysvinit-core- so that
apt knows which essential/important/protected packages to remove.

(And it will only work if the init dependency is changed.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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<ch> you introduced a merge commit        │<mika> % g rebase -i HEAD^^
<mika> sorry, no idea and rebasing just fscked │<mika> Segmentation
<ch> should have cloned into a clean repo      │  fault (core dumped)
<ch> if I rebase that now, it's really ugh     │<mika:#grml> wuahhhhhh