Re: systemd being pulled in during dist-upgrade

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

> On Feb 21, 2022, at 10:52 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
> 
> Small update...
> 
> Well, looks like these two dependencies are not the cause. But checking
> the differences between the "fwupd" package in buster ([2]) and bullseye
> ([3]) there is a dependency on "libsystemd0" that is not included in the
> respective package for buster. Checking the changelog the build dep was
> introduced with 1.5.3-1:
> 
> ```

Yes, I saw that yesterday as well.

I assume it’s required for EFI firmware updates to work properly as the machine needs to be rebooted for these.

It should still work to boot into sysvinit even with systemd installed, however.

Adrian