Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 14:05:50 +0100, Ansgar wrote:
> I'm fairly sure that systemd-tmpfiles doesn't require systemd as pid-1
It doesn't, but its dh_installsystemd integration currently does, so
maintainer scripts relying on it would currently be buggy. I think it
would be premature to recommend systemd-tmpfiles in Policy before it can
be used in a non-buggy way.
I had also thought that, in the current state of non-systemd-init-world,
having a dependency on a package containing systemd-tmpfiles was likely
to be practically problematic because it would indirectly conflict
with elogind, via libsystemd0 and its elogind reimplementation - but
looking more closely, systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers depend on
/lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-243.so (and not on libsystemd0) so that
shouldn't actually be a problem.
smcv
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