On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:59:50 +0100, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >have you considered a more declarative approach as provided by >systemd-sysusers (8)?
No. This thread is about evolving adduser. Not getting rid of it. 514 packages in Debian match "adduser.*--system". Feel free to offer a declarative thing and encourage maintainers to migrate. adduser is going to continue to offer a stable interface for existing packages for the time being. It has been adduser's goal for 20 years now to be as declarative as possible in a maintainer script by doing everything necessary, just requiring the package to have one line in the right place in the script. Greetings Marc P.S.: I got involved with adduser 20 years ago because the then debhelper maintainer brushed off my suggestion to have a dh call for creating system users. Back then, this approach was as declarative as it could get. -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
