Control: forcemerge 797395 -1
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 04:03:44PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.36.1
>
> Hi,
>
> There is a false positive in the
> "maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home" tag if
> the --system argument comes after --home.
>
> Whilst the adduser manpage suggests this wouldn't work, adduser will
> happily accept it. For example:
>
> adduser \
> --home /var/lib/redis \
> --quiet \
> --system \
> --group \
> ${USER}
>
> .. appears to work fine, but Lintian warns.
>
> Looking at the regex for this tag in
> data/scripts/maintainer-script-bad-command indicates why (ie. enforced
> ordering on the line), but my regex-fu is not strong enough to support
> either ordering without essentially duplicating the line, hence no "Tag:
> patch".
>
> Of course, it might also be acceptable to wontfix this not accept this
> variant - I am unsure of the Lintian policy in this area.
This got fixed just some hours ago :)
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=1d6b8a0a24c4bc477fd188964484f9480b76bce2
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