Hi, > > >For what it is worth: I use `adduser` outside maintainer script. > > > > > >I think I'm not alone in that. > > > > Useradd has grown most of that functionality in the last two decades. > > That leaves no space for adduser between useradd and sysusers. At > > least not enouch space to waste any more life time on it. .. > If no one else wants to maintain adduser, I would ask Debian to please > do a call for maintainers before abandoning it. I won't immediately > step up and say "I'll do it" since I don't know if my workplace will > want to allocate my time to that, but it's not beyond the realm of > possibility.
I am pretty sure 'adduser' continues to remain useful and worth maintaining. Thanks Marc for maintaining it! Anyone who wants to help Marc is welcome to do it at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/merge_requests or send patches via BTS. There currently open MRs from contributors and over the years there has been numerous contributors (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/graphs/master) and the package is in shared Debian namespace, so it is easy to contribute. If Marc some days wants to pass on the torch to somebody else, I recommend primairly reaching out to the contributors who already worked with the package and who are not following this mailing list.
