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

[Mark Hindley]

Johannes,

Thanks for this.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 08:54:49AM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> my goal is to easily create chroots for Debian GNU/Hurd on systems running the
> default Debian init system: systemd.

Great!

> This is not possible if the system on the outside has systemd installed
> because that conflicts with insserv and according to Michael Biebl this is not
> going to change.

My preference is that the systemd conflicts with insserv should be removed. You
have a reasonable usage case for coinstalling insserv with systemd.  The
conflicts also causes autopkgest failures on ci.d.o for startpar, openrc and
insserv itself as systemd cannot be uninstalled from the autopkgtest testbed.

The conflicts was added to avoid interactions between systemd, initscripts and
insserv, however support for LSB initscripts in systemd has now been removed and
I find it unlikely that #1072562 or similar would still be issue even if
initscripts and insserv were installed on a systemd system. If I am wrong in my
analysis here, I would be happy to be pointed to a reproducer for such an issue.

With best wishes

Mark