After some more search I found that the "original" gzipped tar archive that is referenced in your new version accountsservice_0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1.dsc differs a lot from the xz-compressed "original" tar used by the old trusty version: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/accountsservice_0.6.35.orig.tar.xz
This is exactly the difference seen in the diff mentioned above. In the attached accountsservice_0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1.dsc I have just replaced all references to the dubios accountsservice_0.6.35.orig.tar.gz by the corresponding lines for accountsservice_0.6.35.orig.tar.xz as found in https://launchpadlibrarian.net/162749972/accountsservice_0.6.35-0ubuntu7.dsc (and removed the pgp signature). With this change the packag compiles cleanly and works as expected. @Robert: please use the working original tar.xz from the old package and repost the patch. Thanks. ** Attachment added: "accountsservice_0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1.dsc with corrected accountsservice_0.6.35.orig.tar.xz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1290785/+attachment/4149542/+files/accountsservice_0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1.dsc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290785 Title: Users with UID > 60000 are invisible in login and Settings->User unless /etc/login.defs updated Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “accountsservice” source package in Trusty: Triaged Bug description: [Impact] Users of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with UID > 60000 will not show in the greeter or system settings without editing UID_MAX in /etc/login.defs. This was not required in 12.04 LTS. In 12.04 LTS users were only hidden if they had UID < UID_MIN. In 13.10 this was changed to UID < UID_MIN or UID > UID_MAX. [Test Case] 1. Create a user with a UID > UID_MAX: $ adduser --uid 60001 big-uid 2. Restart system Expected result: "big-uid" is shown in the greeter. Once logged in "big-uid" is shown in system settings. Observed result: "big-uid" is not shown in the greeter (14.04 LTS, 14.10) "big-uid" is not shown in system settings (13.10, 14.04LTS, 14.10) [Regression Potential] This could cause users that were previously hidden to be shown. This seems unlikely to be a problem as all system created user accounts are less than UID_MIN and there doesn't seem be a convention to use accounts > UID_MAX for this case. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1290785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp