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Bug#1035654: marked as done (non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages)

Your message dated Thu, 25 May 2023 15:18:48 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1035654: fixed in apt 2.6.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1035654,
regarding non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages
to be marked as done.

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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 adduser used to be practically essential,
> becaue apt used to depend on it, but that dependency was removed on my
> request. Now apt never was essential to begin with, but having a Debian
> installation without apt is a relatively rare thing. So while this was
> theoretically buggy at all times, it is now practically observable.

The current list of relevant bug reports is:

#1034758 	x2goserver-common 	x2goserver-common: fails to purge - command (deluser|delgroup) in postrm not found
#1035291 	desktop-autoloader 	desktop-autoloader: fails to purge - command (deluser|adduser) in postrm not found 	2023-04-30
#1035292 	debian-edu-fai 	debian-edu-fai: fails to purge - command (deluser|adduser) in postrm not found 	2023-04-30
#1035435 	webdis 	webdis: fails to purge - command (deluser|adduser) in postrm not found

Those bugs might be fixable, but is this list complete?

And then there's that:

> 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 things go bad without any way of us fixing those packages.
> 
> So fixing these bugs (and probably not removing users in purge) is the
> way to go, but this also raises the question of whether we want to limit
> the possible damage in trixie by making adduser temporarily essential
> for trixie. What do you think?

I suppose you meant s/trixie/bookworm/. We are very late in the release
cycle, so dear apt maintainers, please re-instante the dependency on
adduser for bookworm. Once bookworm is released, removing adduser from
the pseudo-essential set can be revisited.

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 changes to the pseudo-essential set.

Cheers

> Of course, I really like small essential and want it gone, but we need
> to balance that with possible breakage.
> 
> I think this primarily is a decision that belongs to the release
> managers with the default choice being "do nothing about it".
> 
> Helmut
> 

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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Source: apt
Source-Version: 2.6.1
Done: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1035654@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> (supplier of updated apt package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 16:11:37 +0200
Source: apt
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Closes: 1035654
Changes:
 apt (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Restore adduser dependency for bookworm.
     This caused some regressions to late in the bookworm cycle. To keep
     upgrade paths (which will have adduser installed) the same, we drop
     the base-password alternative rather than requiring both dependencies,
     as that could change resolving or ordering bugs. (Closes: #1035654)
   * Point gitlab-ci and gbp to bookworm/2.6.y
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