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

[Mark Hindley]

Josch,

Thanks for the nudge. I fully support your aims.

I had a quick look at this. I can't find any maintscript snippets that change
behaviour by testing for the presence/absence of /sbin/insserv. The only place
that I can find something similar is update-rc.d from src:init-system-helpers.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 08:55:32AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> > Jochen Sprickerhof brought up that update-rc.d/insserv could behave differently
> > if DPKG_ROOT is set, but Michael Biebl replied that he has "no interest in
> > touching this code and investigating all the corner cases".
> 
> without the systemd maintainers willing to change things I fear that nothing
> will move.

Whilst I respect Michael's extensive experience and everybody is entitled to
have an opinion, the systemd maintainers cannot be the gatekeepers of what is
acceptable.

For the autopkgtest breakage that I have already identified, I would still
prefer a solution that enabled the systemd Conflicts insserv to be removed. Are
you able to look at update-rc.d and see how its behaviour could be improved?

Thanks

Mark