Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023, Simon McVittie wrote:
>No init system at all, (C.), can only happen when starting with a
>minbase debootstrap or equivalent (because a default debootstrap
>includes the init metapackage due to its Priority: required). In
>this scenario it *usually* doesn't really matter whether we
>install systemd or systemd-tmpfiles-standalone. systemd is somewhat
This is not quite true; there is one really important use case:
chroots. I have multiple chroots (sid, stretch, buster) on one
of my bullseye systems which I use with schroot, but that could
just as well be any other chroot, to run individual software in
it. They are, as is proper, configured to not run any services
(via policy-rc.d).
>I also think that Policy shouldn't be recommending this interface without
Therefore I belive that Policy ought to *not* recommend any
solution that depends on starting dæmons or init scripts to
create temporary files/directories that are necessary for
programs to work.
>- if we get a useful non-Linux port (admittedly this looks increasingly
> unlikely) which cannot compile src:systemd, then their reimplementation
hurd-amd64 is just shy of being uploaded; work on Debian GNU/Hurd
is active and things seem to look good on that front. (The pools
for hurd-amd64 have just been created a week or two ago.)
bye,
//mirabilos
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