Bug#1128351: Cannot install sysvinit-core on a fresh Trixie installation (13.2)

[Andrew Bower]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 03:33:25PM +0300, Aldemir Akpinar wrote:
>    Thank you so much Andrew! I understand why protected property is there
>    now, also I don't have much nice things to say about systemd so 
>    When things didn't work as it used to be, I assumed the worst and blamed
>    the usual suspect. 
>    So the whole thing works nicely with:
>    apt-get --allow-remove-essential --no-install-recommends     --purge
>    install sysv-rc sysvinit-core systemd-sysv-

:-)

>    Another thing is, I had to install ifupdown otherwise the nics don't go
>    up, maybe it needs to be a recommended package? Just an idea. 

ifupdown is already "Priority: important" so I'm not sure why you didn't
have it already installed.

>    Let me know if you need help on the init page wiki.

I think there's a standing invitation to anyone to improve the wiki so I
think it's fair to say your contribution would be welcome!

>    Thanks so much everyone for keeping sysvinit alive.