Package: libuuid1
Version: 1.41.3-1
Severity: wishlist

short summary:

it is better to use "adduser --system ... libuid ..." instead of the
complicated parsing of $ADDUSERCONF because adduser has the --system
option so parsing /etc/adduser.conf is not necessary.

as far as i have observed, there seems to be one difference thou:
adduser seems to increment the uid step-by-step increment to find the
next free one (thus filling gaps/holes) while useradd seems to search
for the highest uid and increment this one.

e.g.

uid:name
120:sshd
121:cups
700:backup

-> useradd will use 701 and adduser will use 122.

cheers,
raoul
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