Source: redis-server Version: 2:2.8.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I'm installing redis-server into a root filesystem using multistrap. The host has a different architecture, so multistrap skips all scripts during the install. Then when I run dpkg --configure -a, the postinst script tries to chown redis /var/lib/redis, which fails because the redis user that would have been created by preinst doesn't exist. I haven't found an official policy on how packages are supposed to create a user during install, but all the instances I found (in openssh-server, racoon, trousers) did so in postinst rather than preinst. This unofficial wiki document also recommends postinst: https://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts . Since this convention happens to benefit multistrap users, I'd like to see redis-server adopt it. (See bug 627068 for further discussion about skipping preinst during foreign installs.) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.11.0-17-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
