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

[Pirate Praveen]

On Tue, 06 May 2025 21:54:57 +0000 Martin <debacle at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2025-05-04 21:56, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > The following debdiff should fix this bug, but I have not tested it.
> 
> There are three issues with the patch:
> 
> 1. It seems, that debian/rules must be appended with:
> 
> # Can be dropped in compat level 14
> execute_after_dh_installinit:
> 	dh_installsysusers

Thanks for catching this.

> 2. The sysusers should be:
> 
> #Type Name    ID            GECOS          Home directory    Shell
> g     jabber  -
> u     jabber  -:jabber      "Jabber User"  /var/lib/jabberd2

I missed GECOS should be empty or - in the man page

> 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 ?

I hope that should ensure the user are created before we run chmod.
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