[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#927837: matrix-synapse: deprecated dpkg-statoverride --force option in postrm

[Linda Lapinlampi]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:35:25PM +0000, Linda Lapinlampi wrote:
>     for DIR in /var/lib/matrix-synapse /var/log/matrix-synapse /etc/matrix-synapse; do
>       if ! dpkg-statoverride --list --quiet $DIR >/dev/null; then
>         dpkg-statoverride --force --quiet --update --add $USER nogroup 0755 $DIR
>       fi
>     done

This is pretty unsafe anyway, just ran into this on reinstall (after
fiddling with removing some directories):

Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 matrix-synapse all 0.99.2-3 [701 kB]
Fetched 701 kB in 0s (3236 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 unknown system user 'matrix-synapse' in statoverride file; the system user got removed
before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you
can remove the override manually with dpkg-statoverride
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Probably has to do with the daemon user bug, not being removed?