Bug#876189: honor dpkg-statsoverride in postinst

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Package: tomcat8
Version: 8.5.16-1

Hi,
I'm forwarding this as it was reported to Ubuntu but affecting both of us.
In the postinst there is a snippet already considering debconf for names:

        db_get tomcat8/username && TOMCAT8_USER="$RET" ||
TOMCAT8_USER="tomcat8"
       db_get tomcat8/groupname && TOMCAT8_GROUP="$RET" ||
TOMCAT8_GROUP="tomcat8"
[...]
       chown -R $TOMCAT8_USER:adm /var/log/tomcat8 /var/cache/tomcat8
       chmod 750 /var/log/tomcat8 /var/cache/tomcat8

Not sure if that can be reasonably combined, but would it make sense to you
to combine that with dpkg-statoverride [1] somehow?

That would be to allow a user to override those permissions and retain them
across update/installs/reinstalls.

[1]: https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/dpkg/dpkg-statoverride.8.en.html

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-java-maintainers/attachments/20170919/5b9831a8/attachment.html>