Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:04:25 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> That leaves no space for adduser between useradd and sysusers. At >> least not enouch space to waste any more life time on it. > >From how you write, I have the impression th

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:49:17 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: >adduser has one very useful piece of functionality useradd doesn't >have to my awareness, which my workplace absolutely depends on for >hardware we build and sell. That's the ability to execute a "hook >script" at user creation (/usr/local

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:13:00 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: >As long as people want to use adduser, I think/hope they'd be >grateful for its existence and continued maintenance? As far as I was told, using sysusers is going to be mandatory soon, to help with containers, immutable /usr and empt

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:08:18 +0200, "Andrea Pappacoda" wrote: >On Sun Apr 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM CEST, Marc Haber wrote: >> 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 an

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 27.04.25 14:18, Marc Haber wrote: That leaves no space for adduser between useradd and sysusers. I have no idea exactly how many packages in Debian implement a mostly-strict subset of the features of some other (set of) package(s) — but the number is, um, definitely not expressible with one

Re: Need advice on architecture exclusion when arch: all packages are involved.

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks Dominique for writing CME and thanks Paul for the explanations, on my side I have added a --64 option to the `routine-update` script (from the same-named package) that adds a build-dependency on architecture-is-64-bits, and plan to do the same for little-endian architectures. I wrote recen

Re: Question on libarchive/3.7.4-2 and CVE-2025-1632 patch

2025-04-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 01:25:52PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 11:36:46AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 09:20:46AM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > > >

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
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 wast

Re: Need advice on raku-* package mess

2025-04-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 27 April 2025 18:30:09 Central European Summer Time Paul Gevers wrote: > There are arch:all binaries involved, and the migration software doesn't > allow packages on amd64 and arm64 that are currently installable to > become non-installable without the Release Team overriding that. W

Re: Need advice on raku-* package mess

2025-04-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Dominique On 27-04-2025 15:19, Dominique Dumont wrote: We've requested removal of raku-* packages from ARMs arches on the assumption that moarvm build was not reliable on arm arches. There are arch:all binaries involved, and the migration software doesn't allow packages on amd64 and arm64

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:52:57 +0200, Geert Stappers > wrote: > >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. > T

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:52:57 +0200, Geert Stappers > wrote: > >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 deca

Need advice on raku-* package mess

2025-04-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi We've requested removal of raku-* packages from ARMs arches on the assumption that moarvm build was not reliable on arm arches. Currently, these packages are removed from unstable, but not yet from testing because of dependencies knots that prevent migration. Turn out that moarvm builds fin

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Andrea Pappacoda
Hi Marc, On Sun Apr 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM CEST, Marc Haber wrote: 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. I think I do not fully understand w

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [250427 14:18]: On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:52:57 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: 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 betwe

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:52:57 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: >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 lea

Re: Bug#1104169: wish: adduser _radvd on new installs

2025-04-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 10:29:07PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 10:18:46PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > --- a/debian/radvd.init > > +++ b/debian/radvd.init > > Where is the corresponding change in the systemd unit? Work in progress, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

Re: "ftp:" URLs in debian/copyright files

2025-04-27 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Isn't the "ftp:" URL scheme obsolete? No, it isn't. > At least it is no longer > recognized by Firefox, which does a search on Google instead. Yes, FTP support has been removed from Firefox since version 90 in 2021, but Firefox is - first and foremost - a browser, not a

Bug#1104228: ITP: esstra -- software suite for Enhancing Software Supply Chain Transparency

2025-04-27 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hideki Yamane X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, henr...@debian.org, takuya.na...@sony.com, norio.kob...@sony.com * Package name: esstra Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: Sony Group Corporation * URL : https://github.c

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 10:27:11AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Marc Haber [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 devel

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser? (was: Bug#1104169: wish: adduser _radvd on new installs)

2025-04-27 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [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 pers