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Edward Bartolo wrote:

> If my memory serves me right, Debian have removed apt pinning...

Happily, I can report that this is not the case, from direct
investigation on the stable branch. (I greatly doubt that is the case
in tip versions of apt, either, or on testing/unstable.)

> ...and they see nothing wrong in making more packages depend on systemd.

I will be keeping an eye on this, FWIW.

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