On 25/01/07 at 13:59 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > -=| Lucas Nussbaum, 25.01.2007 12:21 |=- > > During a piuparts run over all the packages in etch, I ran into a > > problem with your package: > > Thank you for your efforts! > > Is this mail part of a mass-big filing that was already discussed? Can > you give me a pointer?
Well, I don't have a specific pointer, but those efforts have been discussed on various occasions on the -qa and -release mailing lists. > > Selecting previously deselected package firebird2-common. > > Unpacking firebird2-common (from > > .../firebird2-common_1.5.3.4870-11_all.deb) ... > > adduser: `/etc/adduser.conf' does not exist. Using defaults. > > Adding system user `firebird' (UID 104) ... > > Adding new group `firebird' (GID 105) ... > > Adding new user `firebird' (UID 104) with group `firebird' ... > > Password: > > > > Since adduser is in Depends, not Pre-depends, it is not configured yet at > > this > > point. You should pre-depend on it, so it is configured at preinst time (or > > move your adduser call to postinst, if that's possible). > > Strange. Isn't adduser supposed *not* to ask for passwords for > --system users? I don't see any setting about this in > /etc/adduser.conf. How would configuring adduser make any difference? Well, it's chfn that prompts for a password, actually. Configuring adduser (i.e: letting it run its postinst) solves the problem. > Moreover, reading adduser's source, it indeed does not prompt for > password for --system users, it simply relies on `useradd', which in > turn does not prompt for password by design. > > Are you sure the log above is complete? From the start of package unpacking to the password, yes. > Can you give me a recipe for > reproducing it? In a chroot (preferably): apt-get remove --purge adduser ; apt-get install firebird2-common Or you can test firebird2-common using piuparts, but that's harder to setup. > Moving the adduser call to postinst is possible, but I am not > convinced it is worth the trouble. A couple of packages (all in the > same source package as firebird2-common - firebrid2) depend on > firebird2-common being done with the account creation and I prefer to > have a strong reason to fiddle with them just before the release. Yes, the simpler solution would be to add it to the pre-depends. Other packages are affected by this issue, you can have a look at #408360, #408364, #408362, #408363. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
