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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:34:47PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Stephen Gran (sgran at debian.org) [120702 13:25]:
> > Policy says packages can't rely on the layout of /home/
> > Some packages invoke adduser --system without the switch --home
> > In this case, adduser creates a user with $HOME under /home/
> 
> Question now is how bad is "directory created unter /home" really. Is
> this RC?

piuparts surely thinks so.

Greetings
Marc