Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Mark,

On Tue 13 Jun 2023 at 01:51PM +01, Mark Hindley wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> Exactly. My hope is that if we had:
>>
>>     Package: systemd
>>     Architecture: linux-any
>>     Provides: default-systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tmpfiles
>>     Conflicts: systemd-tmpfiles
>>     Replaces: systemd-tmpfiles
>>
>>     Package: systemd-standalone-tmpfiles
>>     Architecture: linux-any
>>     Provides: systemd-tmpfiles
>>     Conflicts: systemd-tmpfiles
>>     Replaces: systemd-tmpfiles
>>
>>     Package: elogind
>>     Depends: systemd-standalone-tmpfiles        # or Recommends?
>
> In principle and just looking at the dependencies this seems a viable
> solution.  It is very similar to the way we handle the logind and
> default-logind virtual packages.

Thank you for reviewing.  Do you have a rough idea of how long it would
be until you could confirm that this is viable, and implement it in sid?

-- 
Sean Whitton
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