This one time, at band camp, Stefan Hornburg said:
> Hello,
>
> I just received this bug report and would like to ask for comments on how to
> handle this problem. There are enough other packages out there with a similar
> setup.
>
> Ciao
> Racke
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:57:15 +0200
> From: Jonathan ILIAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user while
> name_regex don't match username "sympa"
>
>
> I use a non usual name_regex pattern constraint to adduser script. Here
> is the pattern I set in /etc/adduser.conf :
> NAME_REGEX="([A-Z][a-z]+){2,}"
>
> Wouldn't it be better that postinst script calls adduser with --force-badname
> ?I don't think it is the maintainer's job to work around completely brain dead setups, but maybe that's just me. With this regex, none of the packages in Debian that require a user will install. This person will be submitting a lot of bug reports, I guess. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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