Bug#248354: base-passwd: conflicts with exim4-base about group Debian-exim

[Marc Haber]

tags #248354 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:09:04PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I upgraden passwd-base and exim4-base at the same time; passwd-base
> asked if it could remove the group Debian-exim ; I allowed it, as I
> thought that finally the exim4 people had come to their senses about
> this.
> 
> Unfortunately, the postinst of exim4-base 4.33-1 now fails as the group
> Debian-exim doesn't exist... So apparently the exim4 people still want
> to use it, so removing it in base-passwd is not correct.

Can you remember (maybe from an earlier backup), what was the
numerical gid of the Debian-exim group before it got removed?

exim4 uses normal adduser/deluser calls to handle the system user and
system group, and base-passwd only is concerned with the gid range
below 100 where normal adduser doesn't do any group creations.

I cannot reproduce this bug. Tagging appropriately. Please help.

I will close this bug at the end of February 2005 unless the bug is
reproducible by then.

Greetings
Marc

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marc Haber         | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header
Mannheim, Germany  |  lose things."    Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834
Nordisch by Nature |  How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835