Re: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

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 best solution though - maybe setting Essential on adduser might be
> > easier and formally fix the issue for now.
> 
> I was also thinking that maybe it really should be essential for now.
> 
> > We generally do not expect stuff to depend on apt. This seems to be a gap
> > in piuparts, that it has apt installed while testing packages.
> 
> Even if we made apt depend on adduser again, packages would still fail
> purging if you removed apt and adduser beforehand. Julian also pointed
> out another advantage on IRC: By using the Essential flag, we can
> forcefully remove adduser while keeping apt. This option is unavailable
> given a dependency.

If you agree that making it Essential: yes or Protected: yes, then
please go ahead with implementing this change. The window to fix this is
closing quickly.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher