[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#757330: Bug#757330: Bug#757330: libvirt-daemon-system: fails to install: update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 08:56:05AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Guido Günther wrote:
> 
> > _prior_ to the insserv (added by dh_installinit). Is this possible
> > with debhelper without open coding it?
> 
> No idea, ask joeyh at .
> 
> > But this still isn't enough. If you didn't modify
> > /etc/default/libvirt-bin then this file would be renamed to
> 
> Yes, I didn’t.
> 
> > So we additinally need to add a symlink from /etc/default/libvirt-bin
> > to /etc/default/libvirtd (since this is what your then renamed script
> > would source).
> 
> Sounds like fun…
> 
> What do I do now, manually remove the old initscript then retry?

Yes, just remove /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin as a work around.
Cheers, 
 -- Guido