Hi Arno Am 03.05.2017 um 14:47 schrieb Arnaud Quette:
> we have a project at Eaton related to 42ITy <http://42ity.org>, which > produce a Debian derivative for a HW appliance. For storage footprint > reason, we've gotten rid of perl. Now, we're adding avahi, which pulls > dbus, which pulls perl through the adduser command and Depends. > > The attached patch moves adduser to Suggests, and use adduser only if > available. It otherwise fallback to useradd. > > Note: there is a small nuance between useradd and adduser: the latter tries > to use the smallest UID/GID for system users, while the former goes top > down from SYS_UID_MAX. > As an example, the original dbus postinst ended up with UID/GID 146 on my > system, while the modified has 999… While I understand your incentive, I'm not sure this is the right approach. There are a lot of packages requiring adduser. Adding a fallback to every one of them doesn't seem right. Why don't you provide a adduser package in your derivative, which does not require perl? It could even be a small shell wrapper around useradd. So, from my POV this bug report is a wontfix as I think it's the wrong approach. But let's see what Simon, the main dbus maintainer, thinks. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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