Bug#1003948: bullseye-pu: package systemd/247.3-7

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 confirmed

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 02:46:06PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>   * Demote systemd-timesyncd from Depends to Recommends.
>     This avoids a dependency cycle between systemd and systemd-timesyncd and
>     thus makes dist upgrades more predictable and robust.
>     It also allows minimal, systemd based containers where no NTP client is
>     strictly necessary.
>     To ensure that systemd-timesyncd is installed in a default installation
>     created by d-i, bump its priority to standard.
>     (Closes: #986651, #993947)
> 
> This one is probably the trickiest (and possibly also the simplest)
> change. It simply breaks a dependency loop between systemd and
> systemd-timesyncd resulting in a more predictable upgrade sequence which
> in turn ensures that modifications of systemd-timesyncd's conffiles are
> preserved on upgrades.
> 
Difficult to predict the side effects this might have, but on the whole
it's probably better to do this than not.

Go ahead.

Cheers,
Julien