And this now resolved itself a couple of minutes later, after another 'update' of the apt repositories, The 'util-linux' (essential package) was upgraded and this now has 'initscripts' as a dependency. So that got installed again. This postinst script should now work again...
- Bug#787106: openjdk-8-jre-headless: postinst script fails with "t... Jor
- Bug#787106: openjdk-8-jre-headless: postinst script fails with &q... Jor

