On 2012-03-23 04:07, Ian Jackson wrote: > If you absolutely want a workaround an obvious one is to bodge a fake > deluser into the piuparts setup.
I don't think working around bugs without properly documenting them first ist a good solution. Especially for sid where we do much more pedantic tests than for stable. > Alternatively you could ask package > maintainers to simply comment out the deluser line. Right, thats another possible solution for now. > I don't think it's reasonable to do an MBF, and request many changes > to packages, until we know that we won't want to do soon afterwards > another MBF on the same topic against the same packages deprecating > the approach from the previous MBF. Actually, we are currently down to 4 packages that fail on an unconditional call to deluser and don't have bugs filed, yet. There were several more when I started this thread. sid/wheezy: boxbackup-server slurm-llnl-slurmdbd slurm-llnl experimental: condor Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f6c2fc0.5080...@abeckmann.de