The adduser package is generally part of a standard Ubuntu installation, since it's officially 'seeded'. Since it belongs to the minimal and standard core seeds,it's bundled by default in all major official Ubuntu variants, including: - Ubuntu Desktop Ubuntu Server Minimal cloud/container images
But adduser is not marked as an 'essential' package, hence in low level and stripped down environments (like debootstrap) it might not be available. To ensure this, adduser needs to be added to the Depends list in debian/control, otherwise it's not ensured that the package installs fine (and the postinst script works) in such minimal environments. Due to adduser's security advantages over useradd, it's recommended to use adduser (instead of the lower level useradd). (useradd is also not marked as an essential package, hence even if using this instead, there is no guarantee that it is installed without beeíng added to d/control Depends.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2162891 Title: Package dependencies wrong/missing in s390-tools To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/2162891/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
