[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1074789: Acknowledgement (polkitd: setup uses non-failsafe manner of checking whether user/group exists)

[Lionel Élie Mamane]

This is on initial install of the package, not upgrade. Here's a debug
trace of the execution of the script:

user at host:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo bash -x polkitd.postinst configure ''
+ set -e
+ case "$1" in
+ getent passwd polkitd
+ user_changed=yes
+ command -v systemd-sysusers
+ systemd-sysusers polkitd.conf
Failed to check if group polkitd already exists: Connection refused
+ dpkg --compare-versions '' lt 122-3~
++ getent passwd polkitd
++ cut -d: -f6
+ '[' '' = /var/lib/polkit-1 ']'
++ id -g polkitd
id: ‘polkitd’: no such user
+ '[' '' = 65534 ']'
+ set_perms polkitd root 700 /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
+ USER=polkitd
+ GROUP=root
+ MODE=700
+ FILE=/etc/polkit-1/rules.d
+ dpkg-statoverride --list /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
+ chown polkitd:root /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
chown: invalid user: ‘polkitd:root’