On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:07:57PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:43:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:17:03PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:06:36PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:50:20PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:51:00PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > > > > reopen 352027
> > > > > > severity 352027 serious
> > > > > > retitle 352027 heartbeat - pre-depends on adduser without consensus

> > > > > What exactly is that supposed to mean?
> > > > > That we all need to agree before adding the pre-depends?
> > > > > That we aren't sure if it solves the problem? That
> > > > > pre-depends should be added with extreeme caution?
> > > > > Are there other options available? I'm pretty ambivilent
> > > > > about how this problem gets fixed. Just let me know what
> > > > > you decide.

> > > > Policy says that pre-depends must be discussed on debian-devel.  So 
> > > > post to
> > > > debian-devel, wait a few days, then close this bug again. :)  I don't
> > > > anticipate any objections, adduser is commonly found in pre-depends and
> > > > heartbeat is not a high-priority package (in the Priority: sense).

> > > Ok, understood. 

> > > Adduser is only used to create a system group and user on install
> > > if it doesn't exist. Is there an alternate way to do this
> > > that wouldn't require a pre-depends?

> > Don't ship files in your package that are owned by the user/group, just
> > call adduser and create any files/directories you need to in the postinst?

> Thats exactly what is happening :-)

Uh, in that case there shouldn't be any reason to create the user in the
*pre*inst, right?

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