Package: adduser Version: 3.94 Severity: minor The warning introduced to fix #159345 is also shown when adding system users. This does rarely make sense. An example is the cyrus-common-2.2 package (but I would guess that there are others that act accordingly), which contains the /var/lib/cyrus directory, which is later (once the user cyrus was created) assigned to that user.
Currently, adduser unconditionally displays the following warning while the cyrus user is created by postinst: Warning: that home directory does not belong to the user you are currently creating As one of the cyrus-imapd packagers, I have two options to avoid showing that warning to the user installing cyrus-common-2.2: 1) Don't include the /var/lib/cyrus directory in the package. Drawback: dpkg doesn't know the directory belongs to that package. 2) Redirect STDERR of adduser to /dev/null. Drawback: True errors of adduser aren't shown to the user anymore. So neither option seems to be the right one. Therefor, I see two options to resolve our bug #378518, and both would involve changes to the adduser package: 1) Make adduser suppress that warning when creating system users. 2) Add a commandline option to adduser to suppress that particular warning or all warnings. I kindly ask you to implement one of those. I thought about submitting this as a wishlist bug. However, since there are probably other packages suffering from the same "regression" (a bogus warning where there was no warning before), I decided against that. Feel free to change the severity as you like. Regards, Sven PS: If wanted, I can dig into the adduser source and see wether I could implement (1) above, which I think is the better option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
