Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-10-13 13:12, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Package: general
> 
> Before systemd arrived, it was possible to have a chroot free from
> init packages (not needed to build packages).
> 
> [...]
> 
> In either case, the end result is that I'm forced to install init
> packages in a chroot which is used to build packages, something that
> didn't happen in wheezy. This is clearly a regression and I hope that
> it is fixed before the release of jessie.
> 
> Please reassign/clone as appropriate.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 


In Wheezy, sysvinit was essential, so you would have the same issue in
stable (just with a different init system).

~Niels