Debootstrapping Debian Jessie without systemd

init is an essential package in Jessie so it's automatically pulled in every time you want to debootstrap a new system. init has a dependency on systemd-sysv or sysvinit-core or upstart. Unfortunately debootstrap always selects systemd-sysv even if systemd-sysv is excluded by the --exclude flag (see also #776917). This can …

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