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Re: Fw: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user while name_regex don't match username "sympa"



This one time, at band camp, Stefan Hornburg said:
> Hello, 
> 
> I just received this bug report and would like to ask for comments on how to
> handle this problem. There are enough other packages out there with a similar
> setup.
> 
> Ciao
> 	Racke
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:57:15 +0200
> From: Jonathan ILIAS <jonathan.ilias@eseo.fr>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user while name_regex don't match username "sympa"
> 
> 
> I use a non usual name_regex pattern constraint to adduser script. Here
> is the pattern I set in /etc/adduser.conf :
> NAME_REGEX="([A-Z][a-z]+){2,}"
> 
> Wouldn't it be better that postinst script calls adduser with --force-badname ?

I don't think it is the maintainer's job to work around completely brain
dead setups, but maybe that's just me.  With this regex, none of the
packages in Debian that require a user will install.  This person will
be submitting a lot of bug reports, I guess.
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