[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#1100030: why adduser in preinst?

[Marc Haber]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:34:46AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> A single call of
>> adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/jabberd2 --no-create-home jabber
>> will already do it.
>
>Thanks -- I suspect the actual reason may be lost in time.  What is the
>exact patch you are thinking of, is it the one below?  I'm happy to
>apply it and see of Salsa is happy and then upload and see if we get any
>reports.

Actually, just doing
adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/jabberd2 --no-create-home jabber
in postinst without any scaffolding SHOULD give you what you want. If it 
doesn't, it's a bug in adduser which I would ask you to report.

If you apply this for trixie, you might need a versioned dependency on 
adduser >= 3.145 or test with bookworm's adduser as well (it might be 
non-silent on the console but should yield the same results).

Greetings
Marc

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