Bug#857309: kodi: 'kodi' user does not exist

[Moritz Schmidt]

Package: kodi
Version: 2:17.0+dfsg1-3
Severity: important

Dear maintainer,

I installed the kodi package on a fresh installed debian testing and enabled the kodi systemd-service which should start kodi in standalone mode.
The service file (/lib/systemd/system/kodi.service) is configured to run as 'kodi' user, but this user doesn't exist after installation.
I think automatically adding the user when using him would make sense.
After adding the user everything works as expected.

Thanks for your work and have a nice day,
Moritz Schmidt



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages kodi depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.47
ii  kodi-bin             2:17.0+dfsg1-3
ii  kodi-data            2:17.0+dfsg1-3

Versions of packages kodi recommends:
ii  kodi-visualization-spectrum  1.1.1-1

kodi suggests no packages.

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