[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1127985: Bug#1127985: libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu: please allow smooth intallation on runit-init systems

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:08:00PM +0100, Lorenzo Puliti wrote:
> Dear libvirt maintainers,
> 
> libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu is hardly installable for runit-init users
> because it has a dependency expressed as
> 
> systemd-container | sysvinit-core
> 
> runit conflicts with sysvinit-core for obvious reason; systemd-container
> is technically insallable under runit-init (as it would be under sysvinit-core)
> but doing so removes elogind and then everything related to policykit
> stops working.. [1]
> 
> Runit has an emulation of sysvinit scripts for when there is no
> runit-init support, so if it works with sysvinit it should also work
> with runit-init: please consider to change the dependency into
> 
> systemd-container | sysvinit-core | runit-init
> 
> Best Regards,
> Lorenzo

The change you're suggesting makes sense, but I'd like to try the
setup for myself before committing to it. In your experience, is the
information found at

  https://wiki.debian.org/Init#Changing_the_init_system_-_at_installation_time

accurate when it comes to switching from systemd to runit? I've
successfully used it in the past to test SysV and OpenRC
compatibility.

Thanks.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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