Comment 3 for bug 708579

It does not seem to be the case. I have the fixed upstart installed, and 'runit' still fails. So either bug 603934 is not really fixed, or this is a different thing:

[cerdea-aws]cerdea@xango3:~$ dpkg -l runit upstart
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============================================-==============================================-============================================================================================================
iF runit 2.1.1-6.2ubuntu1 system-wide service supervision
ii upstart 0.6.7-5 event-based init daemon
[cerdea-aws]cerdea@xango3:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for cerdea:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up runit (2.1.1-6.2ubuntu1) ...
start: Job is already running: runsvdir
dpkg: error processing runit (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 runit
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[cerdea-aws]cerdea@xango3:~$