On 5 May 2016 at 10:18, Felipe Sateler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do we miss anything to start with moving the "Essential" field? I think >> /bin/pidof was mentioned which is provided by sysvinit-utils; however >> sysvinit-utils will continue to stay quasi-essential as util-linux has >> Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-59.1~) >> and util-linux is an essential package. > > The util-linux maintainer is very much trying to get rid of that > dependency (I can't find an online reference, but discussed on IRC), > and it is not done only because apt currently does not deal > particularly well with versioned Breaks "loops" involving essential > packages.
And I found it: it was tried and reverted https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786469 -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
