[Bug 1949060] Re: establish user swtpm, by the base package

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Very interesting, thanks Steve.
I was going by grep through code, but what I thought to be internal names are in fact an abstraction to tools names.
I want to change my assertion to:
"It will need swtpm, swtpm_setup and swtpm_ioctl, and thereby both packages pkg:swtpm and pkg:swtpm-tools.

We will need to adapt the MIR to reflect that, i'll do that and re-
review the src:swtpm part.

I now agree that it can stay with swtpm-helper, but for this bug it still remains to:
1. let the swtpm user/group creation happen
2. fix the adduser dependency
3. fix the debhelper token

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Title:
  establish user swtpm, by the base package

Status in swtpm package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  As outlined in bug 1948880 the intention is to utilize the user
  "swtpm" instead of "tss" to avoid too much permissions of "tss" which
  is in use in other places.

  But I realized that dependencies using swtpm would mostly be to package "swtpm" and not "swtpm-tools".
  Therefore I'd ask to have package swtpm to establish that user instead of swtpm-tools.

  Furthermore (I'll flag that in the MIR bug 1948748) the postinst uses adduser without a dependency which is Build-Essential but not Essential and therefore needs a dependency.
  Lintian:
    W: swtpm-tools: maintainer-script-needs-depends-on-adduser adduser [control/postinst:18] (does not satisfy adduser)

  And while this will touch postinst, also as heads up:
    W: swtpm source: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token debian/swtpm-tools.postinst

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