On stuck migration, help needed

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2019-09-14 14:45] Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de>
> On Sat, 14 Sep 2019, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> >  * startpar=0.64, which fixes test suite, depends on
> >    insserv >= 1.21.0~beta, which (as per previous) do
>
> If this dependency is just for the tests, don’t version it and
> use something like this in the test wrapper/runner instead:
>
> 	if dpkg --compare-versions $(dpkg-query -Wf '${Version}' \
> 	    insserv) lt 1.21.0~beta; then
> 		echo >&2 "I: insserv too old, skipping tests"
> 		exit 0
> 	fi

Versioned insserv is also needed for `make check`, unfortunately.
More suggestions?
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