On Mon, 13 Jul 2026 at 00:17:51 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
Yes. a minbase install currently only has passwd's tmpfiles.d
snippet. Note that it currently(?) is used only to clean up files on
boot, and thus not essential to the operation of passwd after
initial installation.
At the moment dh_installtmpfiles doesn't/can't distinguish between the
common case of tmpfiles.d snippets that (might) create things (cases 1
and 2 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141909#12,
for example lines starting f, w, d, L) and the less common case of
snippets that only configure cleanup (cases 3 and 4 in the same message,
for example e, r, R). Instead it assumes that any tmpfiles.d snippet
might do both.
Cases 1 and 2 can be functionally necessary, so in general will need a
dependency, but cases 3 and 4 are merely a nice-to-have cleanup, so I
don't think they would merit a dependency (if systemd-tmpfiles was
gracefully skipped if not present).
smcv
