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
