Control: severity -1 normal I don't get why this would be severity:critical.
With Recommends enabled, there are hundreds of packages that cause a large-scale changeover of the system -- be it DE switch, installing a gig or more of random daemons, an init system switch, or the like. So unless the policy {lower-case} for Recommends gets changed (or rather, its implementation all around Debian goes in line with the Policy wording), there's no point in singling out this package. > This is obviously not something a random user wants to do and have a > large probability of destroying the system beyond repair. Please file bugs for that "destroying the system beyond repair" if you can name a case (preferably, not caused by broken Recommend chains elsewhere). ========================================================================== But, let's discuss how to fix the issue at hand. One idea: Recommends: runit-sysv | systemd-sysv | runit-init, runit-systemd | sysvinit-core | runit-init, runit-init | sysvinit-core | systemd-sysv This is very unwieldy but wouldn't trigger an init switch in any case. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀