Looking on my main web box (running deb sid w/ sysvinit), I see that I
have a dummy systemd-tmpfiles there:

:; apt show systemd-tmpfiles
Package: systemd-tmpfiles
Version: 1.0
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Your Name <yourname@???>
Installed-Size: 9,216 B
Provides: systemd-tmpfiles
Homepage: httpgo.away
Download-Size: unknown
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: make php work


so this is not new on deb's side; old enough in fact that i do not
recall having to do that. (well maybe, now, but not until after i
wrote the above.)

-JimC
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