Adam Borowski writes ("Re: Switching to sysvinit-core fails miserably in buster/sid"): > I've checked what happens for completely independent runs: on stretch, all > is ok, no matter the order. On current unstable, update-rc.d must be run > only after getting rid of systemd-sysv (not sure if a reboot is needed or > not). > > Sounds like this is the culprit: > > init-system-helpers (1.50) unstable; urgency=medium
Oh dear. We discussed that change here on -devel recently and I looked it over. I didn't test this use case. Please send patches, if you can, and/or file a bug. Ian.