Bug#1016021: debhelper: Please change generated tmpfiles misc:Depends to systemd-standalone-tmpfiles | systemd-tmpfiles

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.07.22 um 16:08 schrieb Michael Biebl:

Am 25.07.22 um 14:05 schrieb Mark Hindley:

It has been suggested that changing the dependency to

  systemd-standalone-tmpfiles | systemd-tmpfiles


number of unexpected surprises users are reporting.

would help the packaging system usually find the correct solution and reduce the With this change, on a systemd installation the dependency would already be satisfied and therefore noop for APT.

This is not correct. It would make the bootstrap phase more brittle as outlined by ansgar. So this is certainly a no-go. I hate to repeat myself: add a Recommends or Depends on systemd-standalone-tmpfiles to sysvinit-core to help apt choose the right solution for such non-standard configurations.

Fwiw, if there is no interest from the sysvinit camp to use the standalone versions, I'll probably drop them again in one of the next uploads.

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