dh-sysuser (2.0.0) experimental; urgency=medium

    this version removes the support for the legacy and already deprecated
    dh_sysuser's control file (with .sysuser extension) in favor of the sysusers.d
    control file (with .minsysusers extension); the sysuser-helper script
    is removed and the sysuser-helper package now only ships minsysusers.

    sysuser-helper package now provides systemd-sysusers and conflicts with
    other providers; the dependency injected by dh_sysuser has been updated
    so that, in systems where systemd is available, systemd is used as provider.
    On systems where systemd is not available the local admin can choose
    between one of the other providers (currently sysuser-helper, opensysusers
    and standalone-systemd-sysusers)

    Finally, note that, due to a conflict that was added on systemd side
    (since v 261~rc1-1) it's also no longer possible to use an old version of
    sysuser-helper (for example to support a custom package that is still
    builded with the deprecated format) in a system with systemd as init.

 -- Lorenzo Puliti <plorenzo@disroot.org>  Thu, 28 May 2026 01:29:56 +0200

dh-sysuser (1.6.0) unstable; urgency=medium

    Debian aims to standardize the declarative file format for system user
    creation and for this purpose the systemd's sysusers.d(5) format was chosen.
    As such dh_sysuser's native format is now considered legacy, is deprecated
    and scheduled for removal after Trixie release.
    To continue to use this package you should convert the dh_sysuser legacy
    control file to the systemd-sysusers format; the following is equivalent to
    dh-sysuser's default to create a 'username' system user:

    #Type Name       ID            GECOS            Home directory        Shell
    u     username     -      "user description"     /nonexistent

    Another option is to use the more popular and established dh_installsysusers
    addon from Debhelper package; you still need to convert to the control file
    as showed above, but dh_sysuser package is no longer needed.
    All sources where upstream installs a sysusers.d conf file should use dh_installsysusers
    as this package is not able to act on those files.
    Compared to dh_installsysusers, this package injects a different dependency
    that plays nice with alternative init systems, non-linux ports or initless systems.
    In future it may also add support for few corner cases that are not deemed relevant
    enough for the Debhelper's dh_installsysusers addon.
    Packages build with dh_sysuser will still work fine under systemd at the cost of
    an additional dependency (sysuser-helper).

 -- Lorenzo Puliti <plorenzo@disroot.org>  Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:42:10 +0100