Bug#931997: tomcat9: [/usr/lib/sysusers.d/tomcat9.conf:7] Trailing garbage.

[Peter De Wachter]

Package: tomcat9
Version: 9.0.16-4~bpo9+1
Severity: important

The stretch backport of tomcat9 fails to install with the standard
stretch version of systemd (232-25+deb9u11). It does work with the
stretch backport of systemd (241-5~bpo9+1).

The errors look like this:

  Setting up tomcat9 (9.0.16-4~bpo9+1) ...
  [/usr/lib/sysusers.d/tomcat9.conf:7] Trailing garbage.

  Creating config file /etc/tomcat9/tomcat-users.xml with new version
  chown: invalid group: ‘root:tomcat’
  dpkg: error processing package tomcat9 (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.9
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tomcat9 depends on:
ii  lsb-base        9.20161125
ii  systemd         232-25+deb9u11
ii  tomcat9-common  9.0.16-4~bpo9+1
ii  ucf             3.0036

Versions of packages tomcat9 recommends:
ii  libtcnative-1  1.2.21-1~bpo9+1

Versions of packages tomcat9 suggests:
pn  tomcat9-admin     <none>
pn  tomcat9-docs      <none>
pn  tomcat9-examples  <none>
pn  tomcat9-user      <none>

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