Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2019-01-14 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > > >> <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful" > > > > > > … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and > > > "bad" would be really helpful here in ensuring we implement exactly > > > what you after if you could spend a couple of seconds

Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2018-06-01 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear Julien, > >> <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful" > > > > … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and > > "bad" would be really helpful here in ensuring we implement exactly > > what you after if you could spend a couple of seconds on that? > > >

Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2018-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On 05/29/2018 04:28 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > tags 900354 + moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Julien, > > Thanks for the report. > >> <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful" > > … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and > "bad" would be really helpful here in

Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2018-05-29 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 900354 + moreinfo thanks Hi Julien, Thanks for the report. > <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful" … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and "bad" would be really helpful here in ensuring we implement exactly what you after if you could spend a

Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls

2018-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist <@weasel> not that I'd file a bug about this, but I don't like this pattern: <@weasel> if ! getent group "$REPRO_GROUP" >/dev/null; then <@weasel> addgroup --system "$REPRO_GROUP" || exit 1 <@weasel> fi <@weasel> the goal of --system is to a)