Michael, Thanks for this.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > My recommendation in [1] was that sysvinit-core should add a Depends on > systemd-standalone-tmpfiles (a Recommends would probably work fine as well). There is an obvious reason: sysvinit-core itself does not depend on any tempfiles implementation. Adding suprious dependencies to try to help APT find a particular solution seems misplaced logic to me and is against the Policy. Best wishes Mark