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Bug#900354: lintian: warn against guarding adduser/addgroup calls



Dear Julien,

> >> <@weasel> "guarding adduser calls considered harmful"
> > 
> > … regardless of --system or? oh, some concrete examples of "good" and
> > "bad" would be really helpful here in ensuring we implement exactly
> > what you after if you could spend a couple of seconds on that?
> > 
> I would think adduser/addgroup without --system in maintainer scripts
> should be verboten altogether.  I'll try to poke through codesearch to
> find other examples later.

Great stuff — looking forward to receiving these. :)


Regards,

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