Package: transmission-daemon Version: 4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-5 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, The transmission-daemon.postinst script [1] (from 10 years ago) is creating an user named `debian-transmission`. However, according to Debian Policy 9.2.1 [2], this user should probably be named `_transmission` instead: > When maintainers choose a new hardcoded or dynamically generated > username for packages to use, they should start this username with an > underscore. This minimizes collisions with locally created user > accounts. This section mentions "new" usernames, so since this user has been used for 10 years already I am not sure it applies 100%. I am also not sure how a migration from this previous user to the new one could happen. Feel free to mark this as wontfix if you think it is too much hassle, I am reporting this to empty my head about this problem and to make it visible in the BTS. Thanks. Agathe. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/transmission/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/transmission-daemon.postinst?ref_type=heads [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#introduction
