Bug#924401: base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2019-03-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 00:37:33 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Maybe, but this is neither a new miscellaneous file nor a new > bootstrapping action. This is yet another bootstrapping tool > forgetting the lessons learned from the other bootstrapping tools. My impression though is that the gener

Bug#924401: base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2019-03-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:37:46AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 10:21:30 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > The reason I'm often asked to add hacks to base-files.postinst is only > > that base-files is usually configured in the second place > > I think it's also fair to say t

Bug#924401: base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2019-03-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 07:50:27AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > I would certainly consider a lot cleaner to add a new field to base-files in > > the form "Bootstrap-Depends: base-passwd" than converting all chowns in > > postinst to use integer numbers. > > I agree that we should not expect

Bug#924401: base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2019-03-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 10:21:30 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The reason I'm often asked to add hacks to base-files.postinst is only > that base-files is usually configured in the second place I think it's also fair to say that base-files is exactly a collection of the miscellaneous files and boot

Bug#924401: base-files fails postinst when base-passwd is unpacked

2019-03-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 07:50:27AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > I agree that we should not expect maintainers to write numeric user and group > ids into their maintainer scripts. This is not only hard to write but also > hard > to read and maintain. In my opinion, using numeric ids should onl