Bug#1132024: Add insserv-bin binary package with /usr/libexec/insserv for easily creating Hurd chroots

[Matthias Geiger]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:24:57 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Mark Hindley (2026-04-23 21:19:36)
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 03:19:59PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> > > > > What else do I have to check?
> > > > 
> > > > LGTM.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for taking this on.
> > > 
> > > What do you imagine would be the next steps? Where does this hang now?
> > 
> > I suppose
> > 
> >  1) get this patch accepted into src:init-system-helpers
> > 
> >  2) get the Conflicts: insserv removed from systemd-sysv.
> > 
> > Are you able to start with 1)?
> 
> I already expressed earlier that I have no desire to argue this out with the
> systemd maintainers who do not seem to be in favour of this change. Or, in case
> of Michael Biebl, even explicitly expressed that they do not want to change
> init-system-helpers in that way. I filed
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/init-system-helpers/-/merge_requests/33 but I
> have no energy to push this change on a social level. I would need help from
> others if accepting this change needs any convincing of people.
>
Hi,
I would also support this change since this means openrc could run real 
autopkgtests with itself as init etc.

best,

werdahias