Bug#925473: tomcat9: sysvinit script missing (Policy §9.11¶2 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cmust=E2=80=9D?=)

[Emmanuel Bourg]

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