[systemd-devel] ssh.service in rescue.target

[Phillip Susi]

Simon McVittie writes:

> The Debian/Ubuntu package for systemd already masks various services
> that are superseded by something in systemd, such as procps.service and
> rcS.service. It used to also mask all the services from initscripts,
> but that seems to have been dropped in version 243-5.

Ahh, that explains why it seems to be implicitly masked on 18.04.

> Perhaps the systemd Debian/Ubuntu package still needs to mask rc1 services
> like killprocs, or perhaps the initscripts package should take over

Sounds like it.

>> initramfs-tools does not depend on initscripts, but *breaks* it, which
>> should mean it is not possible for both packages to be installed at the
>> same time.
>
> initramfs-tools only Breaks initscripts (<< 2.88dsf-59.3~), which means
> it is possible for both to be installed at the same time, as long as
> initscripts is at a sufficiently new version.

Yes, but why is it listed as *depending* on initscripts when it only
breaks it ( and only an older version at that )?