reopen -1 retitle -1 cannot switch init to sysvinit thanks Fixing #992916 ([1]) was made more complicated by the fact that this bug still exists in debootstrap. On sid, if I use the following command, the chroot ends up with both sysvinit and systemd packages installed.
sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --include=sysvinit-core --exclude=systemd,systemd-sysv,systemd-timesyncd --components=main --verbose sid chroot http://deb.debian.org/debian/ $ sudo chroot chroot dpkg --list | grep systemd ii libsystemd0:amd64 247.9-1 amd64 systemd utility library ii systemd 247.9-1 amd64 system and service manager ii systemd-timesyncd 247.9-1 amd64 minimalistic service to synchronize local time with NTP servers $ sudo chroot chroot dpkg --list | grep sysv ii sysv-rc 2.96-7 all System-V-like runlevel change mechanism ii sysvinit-core 2.96-7 amd64 System-V-like init ii sysvinit-utils 2.96-7 amd64 System-V-like utilities I had to spend significant additional time implementing a hack based upon [2] to get around this. Re-opening - It's been ~5 years since this was closed upon a basis that a separate bit of work was being undertaken that would supposedly solve it. I have not had the time to investigate what happened to that work, but it clearly has not worked out in some way. A perfect demonstration of why bugs should not be closed under such circumstances. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/257 [2]: https://www.notinventedhere.org/articles/linux/debootstrapping-debian-jessie-without-systemd.html
