Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > Using dpkg triggers to run the tmpfiles and sysusers tools automatically > is probably not enough, because a package's postinst will often run > system services (systemd unit, LSB init script, etc.), and those system > services need to be run *after* creating at least this package's > tmpfiles hierarchies and system users, because they probably rely on > those directories and users to work correctly.
Oh, meh, that's a good point. This is another good argument for getting dpkg integration in the long run so that dpkg knows to run the right things at the right points and can also track the ownership of files and users. I really want to get rid of maintainer scripts as much as possible in favor of pure declarative syntax in the packages. I think the fewer Debian packages that need maintainer scripts, the easier the distribution as a whole will be to maintain, analyze, and reason about. When I was doing lots of work on Lintian, there were so many times when we could have done so much better if we didn't have to parse free-form shell scripts and try to extract meaning from them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
