Le 03/04/2019 à 13:39, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > I really insist on being able to install tomcat9 without having to > install a whole other init system, even if it is not used.
See this as a compromise? > I’ve seen that > systemd-sysusers is a service… does that mean the service needs to > run in order for it to be useful? If not now, then perhaps later? It's a oneshot service, the command is just fired once at boot time. There is nothing running in the background. > If we weren’t this deep into the freeze, I’d offer to write a > systemd-less replacement that parses the same configuration files > and upload it separately. Or maybe, if systemd-sysusers really has > no dependency on anything else except libsystemd0, it could become > split off into another package. Extracting systemd-sysusers into a smaller package is probably a good idea. However it means trading an overhead for the sysvinit users only with a small overhead for everyone, not sure the systemd maintainers will agree. > But can we keep things working for buster, please? If #926316 isn't fixed I don't mind using adduser temporarily. Emmanuel Bourg
