Package: adduser Version: 3.137 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: plore...@disroot.org
Dear adduser maintainers, recently a growing number of packages are using debhelper's installsysusers addon to create system users. installsysusers uses systemd-sysusers to create system users, so adduser it's completely sidestepped. At the same time several DDs decided that dh_sysuser (I'm the maintainer), that uses adduser, has to go away before the next stable release[1]. Now my problem is that the way installsysusers adds a dependency on systemd doesn't work well for alternatives inits[2], so I'm not comfortable to drop dh_sysuser and I'm looking for a solution. If adduser could be used as alternative to systemd by dh_installsysusers that would solve my issue. Even if you don't care about my use case, the linux world is standardizing more and more on systemd features so maybe this could be a useful addition to adduser? According to my understanding, in order to be used by dh_installsysusers adduser has to learn to A) create system user on a target chroot B) use a sysusers.d[3] file as input I'm available to produce patches for the two above, it could be a new option in adduser or a new "addsysuserd" program, I don't have an opinion on that. If patches are accepted I also will be available to fix bugs that could arise from those new features. this is a relevant effort for me, so I would like to know in advance if a sane patch for this will be accepted or not. Thanks for considering, Lorenzo [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981937 [2] does not work for hurd too https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076045 [3] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii passwd 1:4.16.0-4 adduser recommends no packages. Versions of packages adduser suggests: ii cron 3.0pl1-189 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-7 ii perl 5.38.2-5 ii quota 4.06-1.1 -- debconf information excluded
