Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: override X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Control: affects -1 + src:adduser
Hi, I am requesting to override the priority of adduser to become required. Rationale apt used to depend on adduser and apt is required, so adduser is transitively required in bullseye. Johannes and myself worked towards making apt not depend on adduser and that work succeeded. Unfortunately, that also removed adduser from the transitively required set and now debootstrap --variant=minbase no longer contains adduser while it earlier did. In the mean time, packages started using deluser for postrm purge, so they effectively assume that it was essential, which it isn't. We've now fixed such postrm scripts to no longer do that, but we agreed with the release team that it should be difficult to remove for bookworm in order to make purging packages left over from bullseye just work after and upgrade to bookworm. Originally, the idea was to add back the dependency from apt. Instead, we made apt "Protected: yes". This still doesn't install it by default, but makes removal difficult which is what saves postrm purge scripts, so all should be good. Except that this makes piuparts unhappy as it tries to remove adduser and apt being unhappy about it. This is presently breaking testing migration for a number of packages. So now we thought about it again and got to the conclusion that adduser should also be Priority: required for bookworm (and unstable until bookworm is released). Doing so is a late change, I know. However, it gets us back to the bullseye state and in being required, debootstrap --variant=minbase will install adduser again, which will fix piuparts. So an we do that? Helmut
