The staff group is a system standard group which is created when your system is installed. If you have a regular Ubuntu installation and something removed that group, then that something is the component with a bug, rather than Emacs.
Granted, emacs could be made more robust against this error. In the transcript of duplicate bug #397116 you can see that cups also emits this error, but apparently treats it as non-fatal. But one could also argue that the culprit which removed a system group needs to be fixed, and that emacs is to be commended for highlighting this problem. I'm still leaving this bug's status as Incomplete to mark that the cause of the problem is unknown. -- group staff missing; emacs installation failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396038 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
