On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:10 AM Rolf Eike Beer <e...@sf-mail.de> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 12. September 2019, 18:38:30 CEST schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > > Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 00:54:39 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > > > On 9/10/19 4:25 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > > > I'm not entirely sure. It's what qmail always has done and what the > > > > eclass > > > > also did. > > > > > > This is suggested by the qmail documentation, > > > > > > http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#create-users > > > > > > ...but goes back to at least 1998, and likely earlier. I grepped the > > > source and don't see any obvious uses of $HOME. It was probably > > > suggested by DJB simply because it's a directory, and guaranteed to > > > exist on the various platforms that qmail supported at the time. > > > > I have tested it without a home directory on 2 of my machines and it seems > > like it works fine. I have removed the home directory from the patches. > > Ping?
I still see ACCT_USER_HOME=/var/qmail/alias in acct-user/alias. Also, please do not add packages with no maintainer listed in metadata.xml. You can list yourself + proxy-maint at least. If you don't want to maintain them, you'll need to find someone else to do it.
