Bug#797395: [maintainer-script-should-not-use-adduser-system-without-home] false positivies

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

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Hi Jörg!

* Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>, 2015-08-30, 13:38:
> I use at a maintainer script this line:
>
> 'adduser --home /var/lib/saned  --quiet --system --no-create-home --group saned
> || true'

Lintian uses this regexp (see 
data/scripts/maintainer-script-bad-command):

(adduser(?:\s.*)?\s--system(?=\s)(?!.*\s--home\s+(?:["']?/(?!home/)|"?\$[\(\[\{]?)).*)

The regexp made my head hurt, but I think it incorrectly assumes that 
--home always goes after --system.

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Jakub Wilk