Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-07 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Source: apt Version: 2.5.4 Severity: serious On 2023-05-04 11:17:50 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi release team, > > Andreas Beckmann does wonderful QA work and recently figured that some > packages use deluser during purge (e.g. #1035494 and #1035495). deluser > is shipped with adduser and add

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-07 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2023-05-07 10:49:40 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > Even if we fix these bugs in the packages, people may still upgrade > > their systems and remove them rather than upgrading. Then, once the > > upgrade is finished (and adduser is removed), they may consider purging > > them and boom thing

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
[resending to the bug] On 07/05/2023 10.49, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: #1034758x2goserver-common x2goserver-common: fails to purge - command (deluser|delgroup) in postrm not found #1035291desktop-autoloader desktop-autoloader: fails to purge - command (deluser|adduser

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + bookworm Hi Sebastian, On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 10:49:40AM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > Even if we fix these bugs in the packages, people may still upgrade > > their systems and remove them rather than upgrading. Then, once the > > upgrade is finished (and adduser is rem

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-07 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2023-05-07 13:52:50 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > With such a change I would have expected upgrade/piuparts tests from > > bullseye to bookworm that tried to remove adduser a various stages and > > check for the fallout. Given that Andreas is only doing them now, that's > > too late for change

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 07/05/2023 19.50, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: On 2023-05-07 11:07:16 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 07/05/2023 10.49, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: #1034758x2goserver-common x2goserver-common: fails to purge - command (deluser|delgroup) in postrm not found #1035291desktop

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-09 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Helmut Grohne (2023-05-07 13:52:50) > > I contend that: > > 1. This change is in unstable since 2022-10-31, i.e. more than half a > year. > 2. While having adduser drop from the essential+apt set is caused by > apt dropping it, this was an implementation detail and any pack

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, here is a status update on the adduser situation. Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2023-05-10 08:10:26) > The remaining 14 failures belong to the following 9 source packages: > > amavisd-new #1035841 > debian-edu-fai #1035292 > desktop-autoloader #1035291 > kismet

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:24:39AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Marc, the same offer to you for your recent adduser upload to unstable. Yes, please. Thanks for your work. adduser probably needs an additional hint because the new upload makes piuparts fail now, as discussed ye

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-18 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
On Thu, May 18, 2023, at 10:03, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:24:39AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin > Rodrigues wrote: >> Marc, the same offer to you for your recent adduser upload to unstable. > > Yes, please. Thanks for your work. > > adduser probably needs an additional hint be

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Nicolas Dandrimont (2023-05-18 20:51:04) > On Thu, May 18, 2023, at 10:03, Marc Haber wrote: > > adduser probably needs an additional hint because the new upload makes > > piuparts fail now, as discussed yesterday. > To work around this issue on the piuparts side, it sounds like we sho

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-19 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Josch, On Do 18 Mai 2023 00:24:39 CEST, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Mike, you said on IRC that you want to file the unblock bugs for debian-edu-fai, desktop-autoloader, x2gobroker and x2gothinclient (which didn't happen yet). If you like, I can file these for you. Just say th

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 18/05/2023 21.05, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Hi, Quoting Nicolas Dandrimont (2023-05-18 20:51:04) On Thu, May 18, 2023, at 10:03, Marc Haber wrote: adduser probably needs an additional hint because the new upload makes piuparts fail now, as discussed yesterday. To work around

Bug#1035654: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

2023-05-24 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Hi Julian, On 2023-05-16 22:15:33 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2023-05-07 20:30:03 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > I don't have a problem pushing a 2.6.1 out with this in the coming days. > > > Is > > > this the b