Hello, I have a PowerMac G4 MDD (two 1.25 GHz CPUs, 2 GiB memory) that has been running Debian SID for years. It was last updated on 15 Oct 2023, with no problems. Yesterday, the update failed. Specifically, "apt-get update" worked, "apt-get upgrade" worked, and "apt-get dist-upgrade" worked but deleted ~500 MB of X Windows packages, including Xorg, wdm, etc. So the system currently is text-only in Debian SID.
This system is using sysvinit instead of systemd, and perhaps that's the problem? I noticed when I tried to reinstall wdm, apt wanted to remove sysvinit and presumably use systemd as the init program. I realize that systemd is Debian's default init system, and perhaps X-Windows was always destined to eventually require systemd in Debian. If that's what has happened, please let me know. thanks for any information -Stan Johnson
