On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:04:57 +0100
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
I concur, but IMHO the affected maintainers should act jointly.
Possibilities:
1. Don't care about brain dead setups. In that case I suggest to report a
documentation bug against the adduser.conf manpage.
2. Add option to adduser to apply this regex only to user accounts.
3. Warn the user via debconf.
Bye
Racke
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