[Adduser-devel] Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

Marc Haber mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de
Sun Jul 1 15:09:14 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the
> > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no time. Adduser
> > should change its default behavior to something that QA will accept.
> 
> And what directory would that be, then?

Since policy does not give any hints about that, adduser --system
should probably insist on --home being given.

Greetings
Marc

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