On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:46:38PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > Hi tomás, Hi, Étienne > After applying upgrades, while switching my Buster test machine > to sysvinit-core, several things go away, but firefox-esr ain't > one of those. The machine was installed from Debian 10 ISO, so > it may be a peculiarity with your upgrade from Debian Stretch. > > What kind of dependency resolution (attempt) do you get from > your install command, if you try to keep the browser package, > this way for instance: > > # apt install sysvinit-core firefox-esr although funny (I do have sysvinit-core installed, and when just issuing "apt install firefox-esr", apt wants to remove sysvinit-core and install systemd), I gave it a whirl, and lo and behold... it works! (Before really installing I'll record both results of apt -s install, with and without sysvinit-core added in... Now to read more on apt pinning. Perhaps I've to give sysvinit-core a higher prio. Thanks Étienne, I'll report back. Cheers -- tomás
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