Opentmpfiles: please have a look at proposed init scripts

[Lorenz]

Hi,

In case you've missed the discussion [1][2], there is an opentmpfiles
package
already in the NEW queque.
Opentmpfiles is meant as a drop in replacement for systemd-tmpfiles.
There is a MR [3] that provides sysvinit script and the DD is ready to
merge.
Anyway, more eyes are better so, can someone have a look at the scripts?
(boring details about tmpfiles.d at the bottom)

Also, another important thing to understand:
is Devuan ok with using 'systemd-tmpfiles' from systemd package or prefers
to use opentmpfiles? the GR has a sentence about 'cooperation with
downstream' so this can be important.

As far as I understand tmpfiles[4][5] is supposed to do the following:

* Early boot: deals with files in /dev. This need to happen before udev is
started

* Boot stage (S): clean up files and dir that aren't safe to remove
during runtime.
  This need to happen after filesystems are mounted; i'm not sure about nfs.

* Late boot stage (S): create files and dir for all services that drop a
tmpfile.conf
   file. This need to happen before longrun services are started. I think
(S) is a
   safe choice here.

* Runtime [2-5]: these script are not meant to be called here. During
packages
   upgrade calling systemd-tmpfiles it's a job for dh_systemd or some other
dh_
   that doesn't exists yet.

* Shutdown: it's not clear to me if systemd is doing some cleanup here, see
   opentmpfiles-clean script

Regards,
Lorenzo

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/01/msg00032.html
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947847
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/opentmpfiles/merge_requests/1
[4] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html
[5]
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service.html
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