Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> writes:


    Simon> I think this is partly down to whether the systemd maintainers (both
    Simon> upstream and downstream) are willing to support this use, or whether
    Simon> they would prefer non-systemd-booted systems to use a reimplementation
    Simon> whose maintainers are responsible for supporting it. Do we know which
    Simon> of those is true?

    Simon> I seem to remember a systemd upstream developer being asked during
    Simon> recent discussions whether they were willing to guarantee that
    Simon> systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers will continue to work when used on
    Simon> non-systemd-booted systems (not just sysvinit, but also chroots, Docker,
    Simon> etc.), but I'm afraid I've lost track of what the answer
    Simon> was.

I seem to recall it was surprisingly convincing that this will continue
to work.