This one time, at band camp, Thomas Huriaux said: > Jon Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (12/12/2006): > > Quoting Thomas Huriaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > fatal: unable to find user alias > > > > This pops up now and again ... You have attempted to build the package > > without installing it first. If you install the package, the install > > scripts will create that user for you. > > > > If you don't want to do that, feel free to add any missing users > > yourself.
Erm, that seems like it's contrary to the normal way of dealing with software, but let's let that pass. > > If you want to know why this is an issue, ask the people than fund > > Debian, as they are the ones that demanded the "qmail users" be > > removed from the default passwd file because qmail is considered > > "non-free" If you dig through the old bug reports for qmail-src, you > > will see a bug that added in the code to add the users. I think you are letting your crankiness interfere with your logic. The people arguing that qmail is non-free are a different group than those that have anything to do with funding anything. If you can't adequately maintain the package, say so instead of finding random third parties to explode at. Being unable to maintain qmail strikes me as a good thing, frankly, and nothing to be ashamed of. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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