Bug#679746: [Adduser-devel] Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

2012-07-02 Thread Stephen Gran
Hi, This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the > > > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no

Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

2012-07-01 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
Hi, > When a package uses adduser --system without explicitly specifying > home directory of the new user, its home directory gets set to > /home/$USER. Debian QA thinks that this is a policy violation and > supports this by bending FHS. actually, this isn't completely true. The home directory ge

Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

2012-07-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the > > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no time. Adduser > > should change its default behavior to som

Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

2012-07-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > Thus, packages using adduser --system and relying on adduser doing the > right thing will get a piuparts-based RC bug in no time. Adduser > should change its default behavior to something that QA will accept. And what directory would that be, then?

Bug#679746: default --system home directory leads to piuparts RC bugs

2012-07-01 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.113+nmu3 Severity: serious Hi, I am really sorry having to file this. When a package uses adduser --system without explicitly specifying the home directory of the new user, its home directory gets set to /home/$USER. Debian QA thinks that this is a policy violation an