* Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> [250427 08:16]:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:29:07 +0200, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:While you are at it, please switch to sysusers (see dh_installsysusers).While we're at this, I would like to ask the developer commiunity whether it is true that we have dedided to go away from having persistent /etc/passwd and /etc/group and that it will soon be officially forbidden to use adduser in packages? If that is actually the case, I'd like to see the discussion that I must have overlooked.
I have not seen a decision on this anywhere. [..]
Where are we going regarding user creation?
Unsure about users, but a general thing I'm seeing is: moving away from (adhoc) maintainer scripts to declarative configuration.
Now these also often use (automatically generated) maintainer script fragments, but it seems to be a step towards having no maintainer scripts one day.
Chris -- just observing the trends