Control: block -1 by 946456 Moritz Muehlenhoff: > 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 > >
Hi, I am interested in adding support for sysusers, but I would prefer to do it after the package split mentioned in #946456 (assuming it will occur). @Michael and @Felipe: Can you give an update on where we are with #946456? ~Niels
