[BUG] Services with zero replicas fail to start when they have a dependency that has zero replicas

[ewan-escience]

Description

Since (I think) v5.3.0, services with 0 replicas generate an error when they depend on a dependency that also has 0 replicas. This used to work without any errors before

Steps To Reproduce

Create a docker-compose.yml with the following content:

services:
  independent:
    image: alpine:3.24.1

  dependency:
    image: alpine:3.24.1
    deploy:
      replicas: 0

  dependent_on:
    image: alpine:3.24.1
    deploy:
      replicas: 0
    depends_on:
      dependency:
        condition: service_healthy

Run docker compose up. You will see the message:

Attaching to independent-1
dependent_on is missing dependency dependency

In older versions, no error would be generated and service independent would start (and exit) successfully.

Compose Version

Docker Compose version v5.3.0

Docker Environment

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:    29.6.1
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.35.0
    Path:     /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v5.3.0
    Path:     /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Server:
 Containers: 11
  Running: 2
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 9
 Images: 322
 Server Version: 29.6.1
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: false
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: systemd
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
 CDI spec directories:
  /etc/cdi
  /var/run/cdi
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: e53c7c1516c3b2bff98eb76f1f4117477e6f4e66
 runc version: v1.3.6-0-g491b69ba
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  apparmor
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns

The rest contains info about my computer so I'm leaving that out.

Anything else?

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