Simon, Thanks for your care and insight with this and apologies for the delay in replying (mails to elog...@packages.debian.org have been held up on a mailserver).
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Exactly. My hope is that if we had: > > Package: systemd > Architecture: linux-any > Provides: default-systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tmpfiles > Conflicts: systemd-tmpfiles > Replaces: systemd-tmpfiles > > Package: systemd-standalone-tmpfiles > Architecture: linux-any > Provides: systemd-tmpfiles > Conflicts: systemd-tmpfiles > Replaces: systemd-tmpfiles > > Package: elogind > Depends: systemd-standalone-tmpfiles # or Recommends? In principle and just looking at the dependencies this seems a viable solution. It is very similar to the way we handle the logind and default-logind virtual packages. Mark
