Marc Haber <mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de> writes: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:37:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> dh-sysuser encapsulates maintainer script code into a single command, >> although imperative rather than declarative. It uses useradd directly, >> so it might be NIHing adduser(8). > Augh! > Seeing this saddens me deply. > The history is that, one and a half decades ago, I came to the debhelper > maintainer asking for a possibility to easily create system users from > maintainer scripts without having to write actual code aside from a > single call or a configuration file. I got a stern reply back that this > is not debhelper's domain to solve. > I went around spent a lot of time on adduser to reduce the code needed > in maintainer scripts by handling a lot of Debianisms in adduser proper. > And now, I not only see my original request implemented, negating the > work I did on adduser, I also see debhelper NIHing my work, negiating > it a second time. > Day spoiled. It might unspoil your day a bit to know that dh-sysuser is a standalone package, not part of debhelper, so there's no evidence that the debhelper maintainers have changed their mind on this without getting in touch with you. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
