Bug#812215: consider spliting systemd-tmpfiles into separate package

[Ondřej Surý]

Package: systemd
Version: 228-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear maintainers,

please consider spliting systemd-tmpfiles into separate package,
perhaps with sysvrc script provided.

The tmpfiles mechanism is quite great and if we can use tmpfiles
mechanism in the sysvrc scripts, we could remove a lot of custom shell
scripts that do just the same - create a temporary directory in /run
(and elsewhere).

Personally I have a shell snippet that can understand most basic stuff
in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/<package>.conf, but there's a lots of
duplication since /run started being tmpfs that gets deleted on every
machine reboot.

Also since this utility probably doesn't need anything from the
kernel, it might be compilable on non-Linux archs :) (worth trying).

(Feel free to close the bug if you have given it enough thought and
you still strongly disagree.)

Cheers,
Ondrej

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.10-2+b2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.5-1
ii  libblkid1       2.27.1-1
ii  libc6           2.21-6
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-12
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-12
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.0-2
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.4-4
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.27.1-1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.2
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.3-2
ii  libselinux1     2.4-3
ii  libsystemd0     228-4
ii  mount           2.27.1-1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  util-linux      2.27.1-1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.6-1
ii  libpam-systemd  228-4

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-container  <none>
pn  systemd-ui         <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
ii  udev  228-4

-- no debconf information