Bug#1027404: RFS: sfeed/1.6-1 [ITP] -- simple RSS and Atom parser
Hi, Paul: Thanks for the Cc. On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:46:29PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 04:45:53PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 10:38:52PM +0100, Matteo Bini wrote: > > > Package: sponsorship-requests > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Dear mentors, > > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sfeed": > > > > sfeed_1.6-1_amd64 was uploaded to NEW, and rejected due to a very > > fixable copyright oversight. I don't see it in NEW or the archive, > > so I'm going to CC the last folks to package this, perhaps you can > > deduplicate your work. > > I've sent a new version to Joost a while ago (12 november), it should fix all > the issues. There was some delay in the reply from Joost. I don't know the > current status of my submitted changes. > > The new files are available via the following URL: > https://codemadness.org/downloads/ports/debian/sfeed/ That would be dget https://codemadness.org/downloads/ports/debian/sfeed/sfeed_1.6-1.dsc
Re: adduser claims existing diretory in postinst when running piuparts for shiny-server
Hi Andreas e.a., On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 09:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > the Debian Science team has packaged node-shiny-server[1]. > > It creates a system user in its postinst script. I've added > > some debug output to this script[2] since I wanted to debug > > a piuparts issue which you can see here in salsa CI[3]. > > > > This log shows two ways to verify that the home directory > > of the user does not exist, but adduser fails with > > > > Stopped: Couldn't create home directory `/home/shiny': File > > exists. > > > > anyway. > > > > Any idea what's going on here and how to fix this? > > It seems wrong for a system user to use a directory below /home. Yup, see also https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-lacks-home-in-adduser In https://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts there are some ideas; I believe there is not yet final consensus in Debian on how to deal with adduser in maintainer scripts... Anyway HTH, Bye, Joost
