opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

As I wrote, no need to complain, but act.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/opentmpfiles
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/opensysusers

Both are now in the NEW queue, and both need some kind of init.d sysv-rc
script. Please anyone, contribute that init script.

My proposal is for Debian to standardize on:
/bin/tmpfiles

and:
/usr/bin/sysusers

Once this is up and working in Debian, then IMO, we can set this in the
policy. Then we could mandate having a Depends: systemd | opentmpfiles
if one package is using /bin/tmpfiles, or Depends: systemd |
opensysusers if a package is using /usr/bin/sysusers. I'm not sure why
there's both /bin/systemd-sysusers and /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers, and
which one should be used. Maybe Michael, you know?

rather than on the [systemd-] prefix, which would make a lot of sense.
I'm open for having /bin/systemd-tmpfiles and /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers
as being the standard, though IMO, it doesn't look like the spirit.

Your thoughts my friends?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

P.S: Please do contribute to these repos, and add yourself as uploaders
if you're interested. It's in the "debian" Salsa namespace for a reason...