ESLint complaining about empty constructor and ngOnInit-implementation

In my Angular application, the rule no-empty-function, triggered an error for my constructor. Well, it is indeed an empty body there but the constructor itself needs to be there, because I inject a service.

export class ClientListComponent implements OnInit {
constructor(service: AuxService) { }
ngOnInit() { }
...
}


Interestingly, it also complains about the implemented method for the interface. However, the error messages vary between those two, which perplexes me additionally.

Unexpected empty constructor.
Unexpected empty method 'ngOnInit'.
​

So, it clearly distinguishes between a plain method (be that still required one due to the implemented interface, which itself is wrong in my opinion to nag about) and a constructor. I'm sure that the creators have heard about dependency injection, so I can't understand what I'm missing.

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