Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives
Thomas Goirand dijo [Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 04:07:21PM +0100]:
> This reasoning can make sense, if we agree that we should use something
> else than /bin/systemd-sysusers and standardize on something else like
> /bin/sysusers. Then we modify the Debian policy that /bin/sysusers is
> *the* way to do things, and using /bin/systemd-sysusers becomes a bug of
> severity "serious" (policy violation).
Yes for the general case, no for specifics.
I mean - We should encourage people to use /bin/sysusers. Now, if
systemd-sysusers grows a piece of functionality that open-sysusers
is not willing to adopt (or vice versa), following past examples, I
believe a package set to predepend on systemd-sysusers should be able
to call /bin/systemd-sysusers — And a package set to predepend on
open-sysusers can do likewise.
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