Hi, I've now filed a jessie-pu request (#866643) for init-select, with
... $(if [ -x /usr/lib/init-select/get-init ]; then /usr/lib/init-select/get-init; fi) Given that init-select has now been removed from sid, you don't have to care too much about messing around with init-select.cfg, you could even take it over by shipping a dummy one (in grub-common?, together with unversioned Breaks+Replaces: init-select) for stretch+buster, and finally remove it for buster+1. (Theoretically you should also be able to 'dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile' a conffile owned by another package, but with init-select being removed instead of upgraded that would likely not make dpkg forget that init-select owns that file and a future reintroduction of init-select could make dpkg honor the "local deletion" of the conffile. Taking it back from grub-common should work as intended.) Andreas
