Re: Proposed changes to wesnoth-1.16 (fixes RC bug and autoremoval in boost1.83 transition)

The new best thing to create users is a  "sysusers.d" file which can even
be upstreamed along the .service to fix the nobody:users mistake.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html

Greetings

Le dim. 31 déc. 2023, 09:45, P. J. McDermott <[email protected]> a écrit :

>
> Thanks Simon for reviewing this change and correcting my understanding
> of Policy on this matter.  I agree that would be the best solution.  So
> postinst/prerm should adduser/deluser.
>
> I wonder how a systemd service file provided by an upstream source
> archive is supposed to handle this then, since as I said I proposed a
> similar change upstream (which thanks to you I now see should probably
> not be merged as-is, though I don't think upstream's current use of
> nobody:users is any better, since systemd will even warn about it).
>