Bug#727708: systemd-shim uploaded to NEW

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#727708: systemd-shim uploaded to NEW"):
> So I repeat here my request that the systemd maintainers make a suitable
> split of the systemd binary package, so that systemd-shim will be
> coinstallable with the systemd-provided implementations of the other dbus
> services.

Is there a summary of the systemd maintainers' response to this
request ?  I glanced #726763 and #729576 but they were very long and
if the answer is in there I probably wouldn't have found it.

>  The only alternative I see is for systemd-shim to declare a
> Replaces: against systemd without a Conflicts,

This would be quite wrong; Replaces is not supposed to be used like
that (but you apparently know that).

How do the systemd maintainers think this problem should be solved ?

Ian.