The package android-permissions integrates the Android permissions into a Debian chroot running on Android. Android permissions are implemented in Android's Linux kernel using UIDs and GIDs. Therefore, this package should only ever run on a Debian chroot running with an Android kernel. It adds all of the hard-coded users and groups to Debian.
It should modify things like GID_MAX or LAST_GID in /etc/login.defs and /etc/adduser.conf to reflect the hard-coded Android UIDs and GIDs, but it is a policy violation for a package to modify those files. Any suggestions as how to best tackle this issue? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770330 One idea was to make a debootstrap variant, but I'm not sure that cdebootstrap supports that. The idea is rather than having the package do these changes directly, it provides a script that does the changes to a specified root directory. Then this script is run as part of the variant. Another idea is to create /etc/login.defs.d and /etc/adduser.conf.d so that packages can add definitions there. .hc (please keep me CCed since I'm not subscribed)
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