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 -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: http://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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