Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.36.1
Hi,
There is a false positive in the
"maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home" tag if
the --system argument comes after --home.
Whilst the adduser manpage suggests this wouldn't work, adduser will
happily accept it. For example:
adduser \
--home /var/lib/redis \
--quiet \
--system \
--group \
${USER}
.. appears to work fine, but Lintian warns.
Looking at the regex for this tag in
data/scripts/maintainer-script-bad-command indicates why (ie. enforced
ordering on the line), but my regex-fu is not strong enough to support
either ordering without essentially duplicating the line, hence no "Tag:
patch".
Of course, it might also be acceptable to wontfix this not accept this
variant - I am unsure of the Lintian policy in this area.
Regards,
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