Bug#851747: sysvinit-utils: drop Essential flag

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2020, Andreas Henriksson wrote:

> > One of mine popped up, and, while I might investigate into
> > writing a systemd service for it,
> 
> In my opinion it's just time (well overdue if you ask me) that
> /everything/ gets native systemd units. The sysvinit compatibility is
> just a compatibility shim. It doesn't give you many of the advantages of
> systemd that someone using systemd would expect.

Yesss, but I cannot test them, and I don’t know about the specifics.

> I don't think that's needed as vars.sh (and sysvinit-utils) is
> (and likely always will be) guaranteed to be installed on a
> sysvinit(-core) system.

Wasn’t this thread about the issue of what to do with them
on a non-sysvinit system that uses initscript fallback (and
there are multiple of those)?

> Given that exists, it's not possible for lsb-base to depend on
> sysvinit-utils as it would cause a circular dependency.

Yeah… except if you split the scripts into another package.

bye,
//mirabilos
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