Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Chris Lamb wrote:

> > >> <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful"
> > > 
> > > … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and
> > > "bad" would be really helpful here in ensuring we implement exactly
> > > what you after if you could spend a couple of seconds on that?
> > > 
> > I would think adduser/addgroup without --system in maintainer scripts
> > should be verboten altogether.  I'll try to poke through codesearch to
> > find other examples later.
> 
> Great stuff — looking forward to receiving these. :)

Gentle ping on this, Julien?


Regards,

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