Bug#945269: debian-policy: packages should use tmpfiles.d(5) to create directories below /var

[Ansgar]

On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 18:36 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 13, Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Conversely, sometimes I need to use chroots to test init scripts.
> > start-stop-daemon should not refuse to run in a chroot if policy-
> > rc.d allows
> > it.
> I suggest that you try systemd-nspawn for this purpose.
> 

Or podman or docker or various other things.

Plain chroots and an unclean environment which violates various
assumptions system startup scripts make are not a great way to test
stuff.

Ansgar