[File-rc-users] Bug#812582: file-rc: Installation fails

[Marc Dirix]

Package: file-rc
Version: 0.8.16
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

It seems file-rc is currently not installable on a my debian system.
The output of apt-get below:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  systemd sysv-rc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  file-rc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
Need to get 42.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.1 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://debian.mirror.cambrium.nl/debian/ testing/main file-rc all 0.8.16 [42.4 kB]
Fetched 42.4 kB in 0s (150 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 49631 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing systemd (228-4) ...
systemd is the active init system, please switch to another before removing systemd.
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: sysv-rc: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 initscripts depends on sysv-rc | file-rc; however:
  Package sysv-rc is to be removed.
  Package file-rc is not installed.
 systemd depends on sysv-rc.
 sysvinit-core depends on sysv-rc | file-rc; however:
  Package sysv-rc is to be removed.
  Package file-rc is not installed.

Removing sysv-rc (2.88dsf-59.2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
dpkg: systemd: dependency problems, but processing triggers anyway as you requested:
 systemd depends on sysv-rc; however:
  Package sysv-rc is not installed.

Processing triggers for systemd (228-4) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 systemd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)