Hi, This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > 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.
Yes, that would be fine, so long as we remove the warning again before release. I see no reason to bother users for the next several years with a message aimed at developers. Is one of you interested in filing a bug on lintian for the new warning? Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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