Bug#768315: unblock: util-linux/2.25.2-3

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Gerrit Pape <pape@dbnbgs.smarden.org> writes:

> Hi, installing the unit files, which AFAICS entered jessie quite
> recently, also introduced a dependency on init-system-helpers and in
> turn on perl, making perl pseudo-essential (#757891).  Can we revert
> this too?

Any package shipping systemd units, which will certainly include other
Priority: required packages in the future (although possibly not essential
ones), will want to use init-system-helpers, since it provides a critical
component of the support for multiple init systems.  So while this is
helpful, it's not going to resolve that issue, and dropping
init-system-helpers isn't a good long-term solution.  We'll instead need
to figure out the best way to make sure that what that package is doing
can be done correctly.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>