below is /var/lib/dpkg/info/dbus.postinst quite different to the sid version I have on another machine (the version in this email is from lenny, of course).
#!/bin/sh # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Post-installation script for D-BUS # Copyright © 2003 Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Copyright © 2006 Sjoerd Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set -e MESSAGEUSER=messagebus MESSAGEHOME=/var/run/dbus LAUNCHER=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper case "$1" in configure) adduser --system \ --home "$MESSAGEHOME" \ --no-create-home \ --disabled-password \ --group "$MESSAGEUSER" chown "$MESSAGEUSER":"$MESSAGEUSER" "$MESSAGEHOME" if ! dpkg-statoverride --list "$LAUNCHER" > /dev/null 2>&1; then chown root:"$MESSAGEUSER" "$LAUNCHER" chmod 4754 "$LAUNCHER" fi ;; abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure) ;; *) echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac # Automatically added by dh_installinit if [ -x "/etc/init.d/dbus" ]; then update-rc.d dbus defaults >/dev/null if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then invoke-rc.d dbus start || exit $? else /etc/init.d/dbus start || exit $? fi fi # End automatically added section exit 0 -- Tim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]