[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1087525: polkitd: polkit-tmpfiles.conf overrides dpkg-statoverride

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:47:02 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 19:41:54 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 14.11.24 um 19:17 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > > The way to override package provided tmpfiles snippets is to ship
one
> > > under the same name in /etc/tmpfiles.d, i.e.
/etc/tmpfiles.d/polkit-
> > > tmpfiles.conf in your case.
> > 
> > Simon, do you think we should drop /etc/polkit-1/rules.d from
polkitd.dirs
> > and rely on the tmpfiles snippet only?
> 
> I don't know. I don't have a sense of how close we are to project
> consensus on the extent to which we as a project are using the
> cross-distro tmpfiles.d, and its intended interactions with the
> Debian-specific dpkg-statoverride.

That just means we can't ask *others* to do such things in their
packages, but there's no reason why we can't in ours, no? And I agree
it's time to drop .dirs, it makes no sense in this day and age to do
this manually in scripts.

Incidentally, we also have some leftovers handling of /var/lib/polkit-1
- I think that's no longer necessary as well, given Michael dropped
pkla support entirely, right?