[debian-mysql] dh-sequence-installsysusers use in MariaDB

Otto Kekäläinen otto at debian.org
Sat May 23 07:20:12 BST 2026


Hi Luca,

Thanks for doing
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/galera-4/-/merge_requests/40 and
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mysql/-/merge_requests/77

In MariaDB the use of 'adduser' ended in
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/commit/e3de9956283e351cb739d7b81cf4b59f1ba6fa0b
but the implementation of how to use systemd-sysusers is quite
different from what you did and not using
'dh-sequence-installsysusers'.

Should MariaDB also start using 'dh-sequence-installsysusers'? What do
you think?



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