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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 04:28:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Gábor Németh wrote:
> > In short, yes, it works* in any combination of the two prerequisites.
> > 
> > What is expected is that both `adduser` and `systemd-sysusers` only kick in
> > if the UID/GID doesn't yet exists, so there is no double creation of the
> > same IDs.  I've tested with all combinations of adduser is preinstalled,
> > systemd-sysuser is preinstalled, both, neither; all finish installation
> > fine.
> 
> Pardon me for jumping in. I am the adduser maintainer. slurm-wlm is 
> actually one of a low one digit number of packages that have adduser in 
> their pre inst. May I ask for the reason you have to create your users 
> in pre-inst and therefore need a pre-depends on adduser?
> 
> Would it be possible that you don't need that and just create your users 
> in postinst and just need a regular dependency on adduser?
> 
> Using one method or the other seems to be unusual and sounds like asking 
> for trouble intentionally. I would like to know what led you to this 
> solution

As the package hasn't migrated yet, I removed my unblock to get this sorted
out first.

Cheers,

Ivo

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