On 1/29/20 4:49 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mercredi, 29 janvier 2020, 16.07:21 h CET Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> This reasoning can make sense, if we agree that we should use something >> else than /bin/systemd-sysusers and standardize on something else like >> /bin/sysusers. Then we modify the Debian policy that /bin/sysusers is >> *the* way to do things, and using /bin/systemd-sysusers becomes a bug of >> severity "serious" (policy violation). > > We'd first have to agree that an alternative is actually _needed_. And so > far, > the only arguments I have read in favour of providing alternatives to > /bin/systemd-sysusers are: > * A) it is shipped in the systemd binary package; > * B) Having competing implementations is important; > * C) it comes from the systemd project; > * D) it has a systemd-* name;
Very much, B for me... I don't want to see Debian stuck in a position where we are locked-in. This is my main motivation. C and B are distractions that I'm not at all diving into. A is annoying, because that imposes micro-packaging on systemd maintainers (a 200k+ package for just this simple feature? really?), and we try to avoid this project-wide. Thomas