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

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