On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:01:30PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00:14AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Would "lockuser" need to be in the adduser package? Given that > > adduser is only priority:important, it's not guaranteed to be present > > when postrm is run, so the operation could fail. Maybe passwd is a > > better place for it, given that it contains useradd etc., and is > > priority:required. > adduser should be elevated to priority:required then. adduser contains > all Debian logic for account handling, while passwd doesn't. adduser > is the logical place for Debianisms. No, this is not a correct use of Priority: required. The functionality *should* be in the adduser package, not in the passwd package; but that's not a sound reason to raise the priority of adduser, and raising the priority doesn't guarantee usability in the postrm anyway. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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