tag 641834 pending thanks Hello,
Bug #641834 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=49ad180 --- commit 49ad180074dd59337622c568391770936cf912c4 Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> Date: Fri Sep 16 19:41:31 2011 +0200 s-s-d: Reset the user and group names from the password entry on --chuid This guarantees the initgroups() call will not fail when the user specified the user to change to as a uid instead of a username. Closes: #641834 Reported-by: Andreas Pretzsch <a...@cn-eng.de> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 7183743..bdcd368 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ dpkg (1.16.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Do not fail on --compare-version when generating parse warnings. Existing packages with invalid versions should not fail on their maintainer scripts due to that. + * Use the user name (instead of the user id) when setting the supplementary + groups in start-stop-daemon. Closes: #641834 [ Updated dpkg translations ] * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #620312 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org