Hi, On Sat, 2026-06-13 at 10:37 +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > systemd-standalone-tmpfiles does not ship with an initscript but by > definition this is needed by any user of the standalone package!
No, you could use it without an init system or an init system that doesn't use non-FHS-compliant initscripts. > This has become more important now that a lot of packages in forky > have had fallback directory creation etc. removed from maintscripts > and initscripts at the same time as tmpfiles drop-ins have been added > (not when I've added them). > > Could an initscript be added, please? This ought to cover all non- > systemd users in one go as alternative init systems all fall back to > these. This sounds like something that initscripts should provide at it is early-boot area: Description: scripts for initializing and shutting down the system The scripts in this package initialize a standard Debian system at boot time and shut it down at halt or reboot time. Early-boot differs between init systems and is hard to share... Ansgar

