On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:03:55PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> Yes, Debian has adopted systemd. As a quick fix, you can stick with
> Wheezy; or you can install Jessie and then install systemd-shim and
> sysvinit. After you install systemd-shim and sysvinit, Jessie should work
> more or less as expected.

systemd-shim still means systemd. Devuan is supposed to fix this, but in
the meantime -- or if you prefer staying with Debian proper -- you can use
my repository of deinfested packages:

jessie:
deb     http://angband.pl/debian nosystemd main
unstable/stretch:
deb     http://angband.pl/debian nosystemd-stretch main

If some package you want is missing, please let me know -- I deinfest them
only when I encounter something that tries to pull systemd into my system,
which means I have no exposition to, for example, the Gnome world.

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(https://github.com/kilobyte/braillefont for this hack)