[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1099086: might be less verbose in calling adduser

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:14:37AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 at 07:20:59 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>>dbus-system-bus-common's postinst makes relly sure that adduser behaves
>>policy compliant
>...
>>That is kind of redundant since system users already get a disabled
>>password, home /nonexistent and /nonexistent never gets created. So, I
>>think that adduser --system --group "$MESSAGEUSER" will already do what
>>is policy compliant.
>
>It's been that verbose for around 20 years (probably with a certain
>amount of cargo-cult from other packages that created system users),
>so I hope you'll understand if I don't treat this as urgent.

I filed it with Severity: minor.

>Can I rely on the behaviour you describe in the adduser versions in all
>suites >= bookworm (preferably bullseye), or would this need a versioned
>dependency?

I am afraid that our efforts in making adduser easier to use in 
maintainer script have mainly occurred during the trixie release, so if 
you want your maintainer script to also work in backports it is probably 
better to keep it the way it is.

Your code can of course stay as it is, and adduser is treating its 
non-silence in reaction to your call as a bug in adduser, but I will 
probably be filing more bugs during the forky cycle suggesting packagers 
to simplify their maintainer script codes regarding adduser.

That being said, please feel free to wontfix this and the maybe 
following bug.

Greetings
Marc

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