Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-30 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: || 2006/9/25, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: || The postrm script cannot rely on adduser to be available when purging. || I'm not sure about the best action to be taken: || - check if deluser exist, and try to deluser if

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-27 Thread Arnaud Quette
Hi Bill and Steve, 2006/9/26, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:54:26AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: 2006/9/25, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Package: nut Version: 2.0.4-2 Severity: serious There is an error when attempting to purge nut: Removing

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:47:02AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: If the user owns files that aren't removed until purge time, that would leave dangling files that may end up owned by an unrelated service user when the uid is reused, which would be a bad thing. (This is also why it's generally

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-27 Thread Arnaud Quette
2006/9/27, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:47:02AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: If the user owns files that aren't removed until purge time, that would leave dangling files that may end up owned by an unrelated service user when the uid is reused, which would be a

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote: Hi Bill, 2006/9/25, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Package: nut Version: 2.0.4-2 Severity: serious Hello Arnaud, There is an error when attempting to purge nut: Removing nut ... Purging configuration files for

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:54:26AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: 2006/9/25, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Package: nut Version: 2.0.4-2 Severity: serious There is an error when attempting to purge nut: Removing nut ... Purging configuration files for nut ...

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-26 Thread Arnaud Quette
Hi Bill, 2006/9/25, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Package: nut Version: 2.0.4-2 Severity: serious Hello Arnaud, There is an error when attempting to purge nut: Removing nut ... Purging configuration files for nut ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/nut.postrm: line 5: deluser: command not found

Bug#389350: nut: purging the package fails (adduser unavailable)

2006-09-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: nut Version: 2.0.4-2 Severity: serious Hello Arnaud, There is an error when attempting to purge nut: Removing nut ... Purging configuration files for nut ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/nut.postrm: line 5: deluser: command not found dpkg: error processing nut (--purge): subprocess