Thanks you Mr. Give-me-hell! Maybe I deserve it. I wasn't WALLOWING, I was relating an issue. And in fact I had read that report regarding bug 788303. I saw where the bug was fixed in the latest release of systemd, around 25 April 2016, and had ASSUMED since I had done a dist-upgrade many times sine that date that I had the latest version of systemd for jessie. However, on further examination I see that I have 215-17 and the fix was deployed at 229-5. Had I seen that, instead of WALLOWING, I would have looked at the jessie-backports.dasein wrote:
4) According to the bug report, yes, the bug is fixed. Is that fix available in jessie-backports?
And therein lies the real issue: some folks would rather wallow in a problem than fix it.
Once again, thanks for being so helpful. Your empathy is sometimes overwhelming.