[ BCC'ing Santiago, Holger, Adam, Cyril ] Hi all,
I'm refraining from quoting the preceding mails as most of you will have those in their inbox, and I'd rather summarise the situation right here: At least Santiago's and my opinion diverge on whether base-passwd is presently in line with policy on 3.8 Essential packages. Therefore the route from here appears to hinge on interpreting policy in one of two ways: my point is that base-passwd, at present, is not providing its functionality after just being unpacked - it does require postinst having been run. Santiago claims, if I interpret this correctly, that every package has to be configured at least once before being useful at all (irrespective of whether it is essential or not). The steps from here are such: 1. Determine whether base-passwd is in line with policy on providing its functionality as an "essential" package. A) If it is, then debootstrap is buggy. B) If base-passwd violates policy, then base-passwd is buggy. 2. If debootstrap is buggy, then the most effective way of updating as many debootstrap installations as possible must be found. 3. If base-passwd violates policy, policy could be amended to acknowledge base-passwd's special case. Then again we are in situation 2. 4. If base-passwd violates policy and policy would not be amended, then base-passwd will need to be changed. Again, as you aren't base-passwd's maintainer, you are not to be tasked with this. My point of view is that base-passwd should be changed, and thanks to suggestions from Tollef last night the attached patch should actually achieve this. The idea simply is to sort out creating /etc/passwd and /etc/group in preinst already, so that these files will be present once the package reaches the state "unpacked." Using a version of base-passwd modified in this way makes wheezy's debootstrap work for me. I am thus CC'ing Colin as base-passwd's maintainer to gather his input - I'm not really up for any bug-reassigning game, so I'd rather not do this myself without consent by any of the involved package maintainers (I'm just a debootstrap user...). Best, Michael
diff -Nru base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/other base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/other
--- base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/other 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/other 2014-11-06 11:18:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+override_dh_clean:
+ dh_auto_clean
+ $(RM) debian/preinst
+
+override_dh_auto_configure:
+ cp debian/preinst.in debian/preinst
+ sed -e '/@PASSWD@/ {' -e 'r passwd.master' -e 'd' -e '}' -i
debian/preinst
+ sed -e '/@GROUP@/ {' -e 'r group.master' -e 'd' -e '}' -i debian/preinst
+
diff -Nru base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/preinst.in
base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/preinst.in
--- base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/preinst.in 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
+++ base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/preinst.in 2014-11-06 10:47:29.000000000
+0000
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+if [ ! "$1" = "install" ] ; then
+ exit 0
+fi
+
+if [ ! -e /etc/passwd ] ; then
+ cat > /etc/passwd <<EOF
+@PASSWD@
+EOF
+fi
+
+if [ ! -e /etc/group ] ; then
+ cat > /etc/group <<EOF
+@GROUP@
+EOF
+fi
+
+#DEBHELPER#
+
+exit 0
diff -Nru base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/rules base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/rules
--- base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/rules 2014-08-31 18:04:51.000000000 +0100
+++ base-passwd-3.5.36/debian/rules 2014-11-06 11:25:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS := hardening=+all
export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND := -Wall
+override_dh_auto_clean:
+ dh_auto_clean
+ $(RM) debian/preinst
+
+override_dh_auto_install:
+ cp debian/preinst.in debian/preinst
+ sed -e '/@PASSWD@/ {' -e 'r passwd.master' -e 'd' -e '}' -i
debian/preinst
+ sed -e '/@GROUP@/ {' -e 'r group.master' -e 'd' -e '}' -i debian/preinst
+ dh_auto_install
+
override_dh_installdebconf:
touch debian/base-passwd.substvars
mv debian/base-passwd.substvars debian/base-passwd.substvars.real
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