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