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

[Marc Haber]

Hi Simon,

I owe you an answer.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:41:26AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 at 11:21:01 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>>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.
>
>I don't care about backports for this particular package (backporting
>something as central and system'y as dbus seems like a lot of regression
>risk for little reward). My concern is that if dbus is installed during
>an upgrade from bookworm to trixie, its postinst needs to be guaranteed
>to work correctly, even if adduser hasn't necessarily been upgraded to
>its trixie version yet.

You totaly have a point here that I wasnt aware of. Thanks for pointing 
this out. Adduser will probably have to pass one release cycle for all 
those deprecations.

Greetings
Marc

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