[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1058590: getent in polkitd.postinst is broken

[Harald Dunkel]

I would suggest to simply create polkitd user and group using useradd
instead of systemd, ignore the error message indicating the user exists
or whatever might happen, and then try to use the polkitd user. If this
last step fails, then the postinst script can exit with an error.

I don't know of any other package (except for systemd) using systemd-sysusers
in its maintainer scripts, but I've got 33 packages using useradd or
adduser just on my Linux desktop. IMHO this approach would be reasonable.

Closing the ticket is fine with me.


Regards

Harri