As sudo is using the admin group and is part of ubuntu-minimal, I think
the fix should go there (or in some even more essential package).
** Package changed: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) = sudo (Ubuntu)
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system-tools-backends causes dbus error if there's no admin group
How could the 'admin' group not exist? To me, it's required so that even
sudo works, so it's not something you should go without. How do you
configure your system?
Debian creates the group in their postinst script because they use a
specific 'stb-admin' group, but we use our global admin group,
I installed a minimal ubuntu, using debootstrap, and I have neither
'admin' group nor sudo. I created a real password for 'root', and
everything works perfectly. I don't see why you want to resist
creating this security check: if you already have 'admin' group, it
will do nothing, while on
I have no problem with the package creating this group personaly, and
that's not really my problem since I'm working on the upstream side. But
as an Ubuntu user, I'd have thought that group should be created by an
essential package, and maybe we should push the fix there rather than in
the gst. I
