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

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Simon McVittie:
> [...]
> 
> The opentmpfiles and opensysusers packaging will need to arrange to do
> something analogous, most likely in cooperation with dh_installsystemd
> or some other debhelper step for the first two points, and with LSB init
> scripts for the tasks where systemd uses one-shot services.
> 
> [...]

Re: tmpfiles:

There is already a bug for extracting tmpfiles.d handling from
dh_installsystemd and put it in a separate helper for unrelated reasons
(see #944478).

Improvements/ideas welcome on #944478.

Re: sysusers:

I am happy to implement a helper for that as well assuming there is
consensus that this is a better approach over adduser.  Just file a
wishlist bug with instructions on what that helper is supposed to do and
how the maintscript should look.


Russ Allbery:
> [...]
> 
> I really want to get rid of maintainer scripts as much as possible in
> favor of pure declarative syntax in the packages.  [...]

Hear, Hear!

Bonus points for anyone with a solution *without* maintscripts!

(But in the absence of perfection, a debhelper tool with a autoscript
snippet can do).

Thanks,
~Niels