On 2023-05-07 10:49:40 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > Even if we fix these bugs in the packages, people may still upgrade > > their systems and remove them rather than upgrading. Then, once the > > upgrade is finished (and adduser is removed), they may consider purging > > them and boom things go bad without any way of us fixing those packages. > > > > So fixing these bugs (and probably not removing users in purge) is the > > way to go, but this also raises the question of whether we want to limit > > the possible damage in trixie by making adduser temporarily essential > > for trixie. What do you think? > > I suppose you meant s/trixie/bookworm/. We are very late in the release > cycle, so dear apt maintainers, please re-instante the dependency on > adduser for bookworm. Once bookworm is released, removing adduser from > the pseudo-essential set can be revisited. > > With such a change I would have expected upgrade/piuparts tests from > bullseye to bookworm that tried to remove adduser a various stages and > check for the fallout. Given that Andreas is only doing them now, that's > too late for changes to the pseudo-essential set.
… and probably vartions of tests that start from bullseye, upgrade apt to bookworm, remove adduser, remove packages from bullseye and other variations. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
