[DRE-maint] Bug#924233: obs-server: fails to purge: delgroup: `obsservicerun' still has `obsrun' as their primary group!

[Andrej Shadura]

Source: open-build-service
Source-Version: 2.9.4-4

On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 14:45:08 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: obs-server
> Version: 2.9.4-1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge.
> According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the depends being available
> during purge, only the essential packages are available for sure.
> 
> This problem was observed after an upgrade from stretch to sid,
> intentionally skipping buster.
> 
> From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Purging configuration files for obs-server (2.9.4-1) ...
>   userdel: group obsrun is the primary group of another user and is not removed.
>   /usr/sbin/delgroup: `obsservicerun' still has `obsrun' as their primary group!
>   dpkg: error processing package obs-server (--purge):
>    installed obs-server package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 7
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    obs-server

This package no longer builds this binary package.

-- 
Cheers,
   Andrej