Hi,
packages have a set of defined usernames that are collision free among each
other but as you encountered might collide with other things - especially if a
username is rather short.
Commonly package names (ntp, mysql, ceph, ...) or package name plus suffix
(libvirt-*, ...), are users used by the system.
While I agree that there could be added some code to support that, it is most
likely error prone and unlikely to happen (quite some effort for very low
gain).
That is especially true for ntp which is (in later releases) no more in main
and a change like that would not be SRUable to older releases.
I'll set this to won't fix as I want to avoid people expecting this to
happen.
** Also affects: ntp (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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Install fails when 'ntp' user already exists
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