Okay, looking at some other init scripts, it seems the Debian way is for the init script to load the required modules. See acpid, avahi-daemon, bind9, binfmt-support, cups, fuse, loadcpufreq, lvm2, nfs-common...
Attached patch adds similar functionality to keepalived. Alternatively, one could use a simpler "modprobe -q ip_vs || true" if preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org