Yes. The systemd people are in control of the decision making process in debian now. They have decided that an upgrade to jessie will silently replace sysV with

Yes. The systemd people are in control of the decision making process in debian now. They have decided that an upgrade to jessie will silently replace sysV with systemd. They have rejected all other arguments. Honestly, these truly are authoritarian scumbags. Linux is finished. And it happened quickly too.