On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:17:47AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Andreas Barth said: > > Currently, packages become RC-buggy for just adding system users > > without --no-home and no --home (even if not relying on the > > directory). I think that - if we read policy as that - then it's > > better to fail the postinst then to have hidden RC bugs. Explicit RC > > bugs are always better then well hidden ones. (Of course, all of that > > for after this cycle.) > > So we're not going to do an MBF, but we're going to make code changes > so that packages blow up at install time and users do the MBF for us, > one by one? How bizarre. That can't be what you're actually saying.
A first step could be to have adduser --system spew a warning in this case. Maintainers should notice that when testing packages before upload. Additionally, there could be a lintian check for that. This course of action has numerous precedences. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
