Bug#823322: please build "systemd-sysusers" binary

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Thu May 5 04:35:31 BST 2016


Hey Felipe,

Felipe Sateler [2016-05-03 10:06 -0300]:
> So, if we don't want to get in the business of defining users, just
> providing the binary would be sufficient for this purpose.

TBH, I see little reason to not just enable it wholesale [1]. There
are no new build or binary dependencies, it does not change the
default behaviour as the .service is ConditionNeedsUpdate=/etc (which
will practically never trigger -- we don't support empty /etc in
Debian yet), but this introduces useful functionality for moving the
adduser business to become declarative. The main downside is that it
increases the package size by ~ 380 kB (uncompressed).

If we do this, we should do it correctly though and patch
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/basic.conf to have Debian's static gids and remove
wheel.

Opinions/objections?

Martin

[1] http://paste.ubuntu.com/16230193/
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