[Pkg-shadow-devel] [Git][debian/adduser][master] README: Document adduser behavior in minimal chroots

[Marc Haber (@zugschlus)]

Marc Haber pushed to branch master at Debian / adduser


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cc89d9c5 by Marc Haber at 2025-02-22T10:56:46+01:00
README: Document adduser behavior in minimal chroots

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debian/README
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+Adduser in minimal chroots
+--------------------------
+Adduser tries hard not to introduce dependencies that are not strictly
+necessary. Especially it tries not to depend on full perl. Encode,
+I18N::Langingo and Locale::gettext are pulled in in eval constructs and
+the imported symbols replaced by no-op dummys if the require fails.
+
+This should not affect normal systems as they usually have a full perl
+installed, but minimal chroots are frequently used in QA scenarios might
+be affected. Please report misbehavior you might see in situations where
+libperl is not installed as a bug.
+
+
+
 Usage in maintainer scripts
 ---------------------------
 The reference to create users and groups related to packages is



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