I noticed some other things being unexpected enabled by preset-all, e.g. msmtpd.service, systemd-networkd.socket, reboot.target.
I think this shows relevant packages: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=dh_.*systemd.*--no-enable&literal=0&page=29&perpkg=1 $ curl -s https://codesearch.debian.net/results/460eb7b7b3635bc8/packages.txt | sort | fmt 2ping 389-ds-base acmetool acpid amavisd-new anope aprx argonaut argus-clients balboa bdii beanstalkd bind9 bit-babbler bitlbee booth btrfsmaintenance buildbot burp burrow canid chasquid conserver consul corosync-qdevice csync2 davmail ddclient debhelper dhcpy6d direwolf dogtag-pki dovecot drbd-utils fetch-crl fever fio freeipa fwknop game-data-packager gamemode gfarm globus-gatekeeper globus-gridftp-server globus-scheduler-event-generator glusterfs golang-github-containernetworking-plugins gpsd graphite-carbon hdapsd hylafax ifupdown init-system-helpers interimap ipmitool ipmiutil iwd jupyter-notebook knockd libcircle-be-perl libosmo-sccp linux lirc lizardfs logdata-anomaly-miner mailavenger mailgraph mariadb-10.5 mediawiki minissdpd miniupnpd moosefs mopidy mpd msmtp myproxy natlog netscript-2.4 nextepc nftables nomad nordugrid-arc onak open-iscsi openbgpd openssh osmo-bsc osmo-bts osmo-ggsn osmo-hlr osmo-iuh osmo-mgw osmo-msc osmo-pcu osmo-sgsn osmo-trx packagekit pagure pgcluu phosh pmacct postfwd powertop pptpd prelude-correlator prelude-lml prelude-manager proftpd-dfsg public-inbox puppet qemu radicale rauc rsync rtkit rygel sane-backends sanlock sbws slinkwatch sniproxy spamassassin speech-dispatcher speech-dispatcher-contrib srslte stenographer syncplay systemd-bootchart tcpcrypt teeworlds thinkfan trojan tryton-server umtp-responder upower vanguards vdirsyncer voms w1retap wesnoth-1.14 xpra xscreensaver ypbind-mt ypserv zeroc-ice znc zoneminder That suggests mariadb@.service would be affected, but testing indicates otherwise: $ mmdebstrap sid /dev/null --include=init,mariadb-server --customize-hook='systemctl --root=$1 preset-all' --logfile=tmp.log $ grep mariadb tmp.log [no matches] So I dunno!