Hi, This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the > > > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no time. Adduser > > > should change its default behavior to something that QA will accept. > > > > And what directory would that be, then? > > Since policy does not give any hints about that, adduser --system > should probably insist on --home being given.
I think I'd like to summarize, if I may: Policy says packages can't rely on the layout of /home/ Some packages invoke adduser --system without the switch --home In this case, adduser creates a user with $HOME under /home/ There is so far no evidence that these packages rely on the presence of that directory You think this is a release-critical bug in adduser You have filed this as we freeze Congratulations. Now, I don't agree that this is a bug in adduser - I think this is a bug in packages invoking adduser. I think the right way to do this is a mass bug filing on those packages. Your suggestion of a 'fix' makes lots of packages insta-buggy, which is effectively the same as a mass bug-filing. So, unless you can give me compelling arguments that this is actually adduser's problem to solve, I'd like you to talk about your prospective mass bug-filing on -devel. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
