Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:16:35PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> However, perhaps having fakeroot divert adduser, and when adduser is then run
> under fakeroot, a fakeroot-specific version would be used, that would
> communicate with faked, would be better.
That's problematic too. You imply that build scripts should call
adduser; and I don't think that merely building a package with real root
privileges should modify the state of my system in major ways like
adding new users.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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