[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#727057: network-manager: Fails to install if netdev group already exists

[Andrew Ruthven]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.0-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

While upgrade my Sid box, network-manager failed to install cause the postinst
exited as the netdev group already exists, causing the addgroup command
to fail.

The addgroup should probably use a construct similar to this:

        if ! getent group netdev >/dev/null
        then
            addgroup --quiet --system netdev        
        fi

Cheers!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10.13-vs2.3.6.6-beng (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=POSIX (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.16-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.17-93
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.36.4-1
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-8
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-5
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.21-1
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-4
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.5
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                   204-5
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.66-4
ii  iptables      1.4.20-2
ii  modemmanager  0.5.2.0-2
ii  policykit-1   0.105-4
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information