systemd is now the default on new installations
 

Once initscripts, sysvinit and systemd move out of testing, new
installations will install systemd-sysvcompat by default and thus will
boot with systemd unless the user changes this. It's time for an
announcement:

"The base group now contains the systemd-sysvcompat package. This means
that all new installations will boot with systemd by default.

This change does not affect existing installations. For the time being,
the initscripts and sysvinit packages remain available from our
repositories."