Your argumentation, the personal attacks set aside, is sound. Please downgrade at will.
If I were still active in adduser development, I'd probably, post-wheezy, let adduser emit a warning when adduser --system is invoked either without --home, or a --home /home option. Greetings Marc On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:07:26PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > > > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the > > > > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no time. Adduser > > > > should change its default behavior to something that QA will accept. > > > > > > And what directory would that be, then? > > > > Since policy does not give any hints about that, adduser --system > > should probably insist on --home being given. > > I think I'd like to summarize, if I may: > > Policy says packages can't rely on the layout of /home/ > Some packages invoke adduser --system without the switch --home > In this case, adduser creates a user with $HOME under /home/ > > There is so far no evidence that these packages rely on the presence of > that directory > > You think this is a release-critical bug in adduser > > You have filed this as we freeze > > Congratulations. > > Now, I don't agree that this is a bug in adduser - I think this is a bug > in packages invoking adduser. I think the right way to do this is a > mass bug filing on those packages. > > Your suggestion of a 'fix' makes lots of packages insta-buggy, which is > effectively the same as a mass bug-filing. > > So, unless you can give me compelling arguments that this is actually > adduser's problem to solve, I'd like you to talk about your prospective > mass bug-filing on -devel. > > Cheers, > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > | ,''`. Stephen Gran | > | : :' : [email protected] | > | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | > | `- http://www.debian.org | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
