On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 10:27:11AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> [250427 08:16]: > > On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:29:07 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > While you are at it, please switch to sysusers (see dh_installsysusers). > > > > While we're at this, I would like to ask the developer commiunity > > whether it is true that we have dedided to go away from having > > persistent /etc/passwd and /etc/group and that it will soon be > > officially forbidden to use adduser in packages? > > > > If that is actually the case, I'd like to see the discussion that I > > must have overlooked. > > I have not seen a decision on this anywhere. > > [..] > > > Where are we going regarding user creation? > > Unsure about users, but a general thing I'm seeing is: moving away from > (adhoc) maintainer scripts to declarative configuration. > > Now these also often use (automatically generated) maintainer script > fragments, but it seems to be a step towards having no maintainer scripts > one day.
For what it is worth: I use `adduser` outside maintainer script. I think I'm not alone in that. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
