Package: debhelper
Severity: wishlist
It would be great if debhelper would support adding system users via
systemd-sysusers
in a simple, DRY-avoiding manner. System users seem like a common enough
feature to
be part of standard debhelper I suppose.
A system user is defined in a short config shipped in
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/*.conf, the format
of such a user definition is documented in sysusers.d(5). The user(s) are
created by
running systemd-sysusers.
One package currently in the archive which does that manually is tomcat9.
One possible debhelper interface could be that a sysuser definition in
debian/sysuser
or debian/BINARYPACKAGE.sysuser gets installed into
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/BINARYPACKAGE.conf
along with a dh snippet which generates/amends the package's postinst to execute
systemd-sysusers and adds a dependency on systemd (there's also #946456 which
might
lead to a standalone systemd-sysusers package later on).
Cheers,
Moritz
