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Re: sysvinit: moving the contents out of the Essential: yes package?



On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 00:16 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The only way to address the Essential conflict for the jessie release seems
> to be to move the contents of sysvinit to a new package, and make sysvinit a
> metapackage that depends on an ORed list of the possible providers of
> /sbin/init.  E.g.:
> 
> Package: sysvinit
> Essential: yes
> Pre-Depends: sysvinit-core | upstart | systemd-sysv

What about adding openrc to the list above, at least for some
architectures. No decision has been made by the ctte yet, or?


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