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 :-) > Anyway, ought to be discussed on -devel :) Fine, though I would have thought that this is a fairly common scenario with a canned solution. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
