The Debian init system general resolution returns

Interesting tactic to demotivating those doing the work and get those maintainers to leave Debian anywho at this point in time I actually recommend that any Debian derivatives look at this political not technical "delay" of Jesse and arguably misuse of the GR process as an opportunity to focus on integrating systemd better into their distribution since you give your end users the worst experience by providing them with half support, half migrate release.

Drop systemd-shim and other legacy bits and their support that needs dropping and go for a full systemd only integration, migrate what needs to be migrated and bear in mind that the timer units are only relevant to bootup,udev,unit startup,suspend,shutdown so if your component does not already depend on systemd but ships an cron job it should not be migrated.
( There seems to be some frantic motivation migrate every cron job to timer units which is just silly and adds dependency on systemd where there should be none )