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Bug#1120513: dh_installsysusers overrides documented configuration mechanisms

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Package: debhelper
Severity: serious
Version: 13.24.2

Dear Maintainer,

We recently noticed that dh_installsysusers adds lines to postinstall 
scripts in the form of
`systemd-sysusers ${DPKG_ROOT:+--root="$DPKG_ROOT"} <package>.conf`

systemd-sysusers provides a config mechanism to supply a range for uids 
and gids, see manpage sysusers.d.5
This config option only makes sense if configured for the whole system, 
eg. in /etc/sysusers.d/00-ranges.conf.
The above mentioned invocation of `systemd-sysusers <package>.conf` will 
ignore such configuration as it only searches for files with the name 
<package>.conf in the configuration paths.

To honor user provided configuration I'd suggest running 
systemd-sysusers  without the <package>.conf argument in maintainer scripts.

Severity is serious in my opinion, as this behavior dismisses local 
configuration opposing what was laid out in the debian policy.

Best regards,
Valentin

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Bug#1120513: dh_installsysusers overrides documented configuration mechanisms Valentin Kleibel <valentin@vrvis.at> - 2025-11-11 15:10 +0100

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