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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 23:27, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 22:47:05 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > 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?
>
> In existing installations it might still be the home directory of the
> polkitd user (we try to change it to /nonexistent, but we might not be
> able to if there's some stray process running as polkitd), and we can't
> `rm -r` it because other packages might still own files in there.
>
> I don't think that necessarily blocks removing all of the leftover
> handling of it, but it will need doing a bit carefully.

Yeah removing might not be feasible, however we can at least stop
creating it, setting the user/groups, etc, right?