Bug#679751: Lintian now detect package pointing to /home

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 11:34:20 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> > Lintian now detect script creating user pointing to /home.

> After a chat under #debian-qa it appear that canonical path for non
> existant home dir is /nonexistant could be documented ?
> 
> Moreover how can a developper could correct a mistake in previous
> package ? Rip the /home directory correct hte passd file ?

To fix a wrong home path you can do something like:

,---
# Fix the home directory name created by an old package.
u_home=$(getent passwd USERNAME | cut -d: -f6)
if [ "$u_home" = "OLDHOME" ] ; then
  usermod --home NEWHOME USERNAME >/dev/null || true
fi
`---

Thanks,
Guillem