Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> wrote:

> perhaps doing the same thing as init-system-helpers dh_systemd package
> to add support for runit into each respective package.

That's the logical way to do it - the init script(s) should be part of the package. The downside of that is the requirement for every package maintainer (team) to understand and support multiple init systems - or for someone supporting an init system to become a maintainer on lots of packages.