[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Bug#1104578: jabber-muc: preinst fails, calls adduser without Pre-Depend-ing on it

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 08:30:00PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> On 2025-05-07 16:29, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 May 2025 21:54:57 +0000 Martin <debacle at debian.org> wrote:
> >> 3. But even then the chown in postinst happens *before* the group and
> >>    user are created. No idea how to fix that.
> >>
> > May be we can explicitly call systemctl restart systemd-sysusers.service
> >
> > before we run chmod ?
> 
> That, or just move the calls to chown below the #DEBHELPER# line?
> (Of course, guarded with an if [ "$1" == "configure" ]; ...)

Is there a reason why the existing code could not just be moved from the 
preinst to "configure" in postinst, without any actual change?

This would be the simple fix.

cu
Adrian