[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#601658: dbus: maintainer script uses group messagebus, but does not ensure it exists

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Thu Oct 28 06:55:42 UTC 2010


Package: dbus
Version: 1.2.24-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.2

In a rather minimal chroot:

Setting up dbus (1.2.24-3) ...
chown: invalid group: `root:messagebus'

If dbus needs group "messagebus" to exist, it should either create it
or (pre-?)depend on a package that does.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112+nmu1 add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-3   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                     2.0.1-7    XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-26     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dbus suggests:
pn  dbus-x11                      <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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