Package: init Version: 1.20 Severity: serious Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
"init" metapackage is marked essential, even though none of the inits are currently essential. There are environments in which no init is needed, e.g. chroots and minimal/exec-only containers (like docker). Also one shouldn't be making 3 inits transitively essential, when they currently are not. Patch attached.
>From 99cde7b65ed839df2250f9278847ca20c64e6fd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:15:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Drop "Essential: yes" from "init" metapackage. None of the init's are currently essential, and there is no use for init in many environments, e.g. chroots / exec-only containers (docker). --- debian/changelog | 8 ++++++++ debian/control | 1 - 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index e01de73..8d68f82 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +init-system-helpers (1.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Drop "Essential: yes" from "init" metapackage. None of the init's are + currently essential, and there is no use for init in many + environments, e.g. chroots / exec-only containers (docker). + + -- Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:14:34 +0100 + init-system-helpers (1.20) unstable; urgency=medium [ Michael Stapelberg ] diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index c9fe0df..ef8beec 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ Description: debhelper add-on to handle systemd unit files Package: init Section: metapackages Architecture: any -Essential: yes Priority: required Pre-Depends: sysvinit-core | systemd-sysv [linux-any] | upstart [linux-any] Description: System-V-like init utilities - metapackage -- 2.0.1
Regards, Dimitri.
