Hello, On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 11:48am GMT, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Julian, > > Many thanks for this. > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 12:23:01PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> That being said, being able to switch init systems without a pin is >> a bug in the init system; init systems should set the Protected: yes >> field so that they cannot be removed without explicitly running >> >> apt remove --allow-remove-essential sysvinit-core >> apt install/upgrade/... --allow-remove-essential sysvinit-core- >> >> (note that starting with 2.3.12/stable; --allow-remove-essential >> only applies to arguments; the solver itself cannot decide to >> remove essential packages anymore) >> >> As such I am reassigning this bug to sysvinit-core so it can gain >> the appropriate flag. > > I don't see a problem with adding this. However, I have read deb-control(5) > and > the documentation relating to it and when it is required is quite sparse. I > think this ought to be documented more clearly, perhaps in Policy? > > A quick search indicates that the packages currently utilising this flag is a > somewhat disparate list[1]: login, reform-tools, various flavours of gcc, > init-system-helpers, grub-*-signed... This is #872587. -- Sean Whitton
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