[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1135572: polkitd: please rename /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/polkit-tmpfiles.conf to /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/polkitd.conf

[Alexandre Detiste]

Le dim. 3 mai 2026 à 13:16, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> a écrit :
> Upstream is unlikely to rename things to make more sense in Debian if it
> comes at the expense of making the naming make less sense in some other
> distro.
It was never my intention to push the burden of this upstream.

> >Could this be renamed to /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/polkitd.conf ?
>
> There is no API guarantee that tmpfiles.d(5) snippets' names are a
> perfect match for Debian package names:

I was surprised by that, but it's somewhat similar to the situation
that most times the cron job names match the systemd timers;
but not always...

So I asked that as a courtesy, not something that is
enforced by some Policy

> Could cruft-ng perhaps look at the package that owns the file
> (dpkg -S equivalent) rather than its filename?

It can but that makes it slower. It will call "dpkg -S" repeatedly.

BTW calling "cruft <some-dynamic-file>" works exactly
like dpkg -S that would had been tought about volatile files.

It is slower than real "dpkg -S" but still bearable.

Greetings

Alexandre


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it is always the discussion the most valuable part.