Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 10:54 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes: > > > Sure, updated as suggested. > > I have a bunch of minor wording fixes that I'd want to make at this before > merging, but that should be straightforward to do. Before I invest the > time in that, I want to check the opinions of everyone else following > along and see if the semantics of Luca's change have general approval. > > Could folks take a look at this patch and see if the basic gist of it is > something that they would second (or, for that matter, is something they > would object to)? I think I would second it (with wording adjustments), > with one caveat mentioned below. The whole thing is at: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=945269#295 > > Luca, am I right that service directories are specific to, well, services? > If so, what would you think of moving them to Policy 9.3 alongside the > other discussion of systemd units? They feel out of place here, since > packages that do not use services cannot use this functionality, and > there's already a statement in the tmpfiles.d section pointing to them as > more appropriate for services. > > > +Packages might need additional files or directories to implement their > > +functionality. Directories that are located under ``/var/`` or > > +``/etc/``, and files that are located under ``/var/``, should not be > > +created manually via maintainer scripts, but instead be declaratively > > +defined via the `tmpfiles.d > > +<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html>`_ > > +interface. Files and directories under ephemeral filesystems such as > > +``/tmp/`` may also be created and managed via ``tmpfiles.d`` snippets. > > I understand the empty directory part, but I don't believe "files that are > located under /var" is correct unless you specifically mean *empty* files > (and even then, I'm not clear on precisely when this would be needed). > For example, /var/lib/gnubg/gnubg_ts0.bd is created by the gnubg package > maintainer script, and I can see no possible way that action could (or > should) be handled by the tmpfiles.d mechanism. > > What am I missing? > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > >
