[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#604210: Bug#604210: sbuild: package purge (after dependencies removal) fails

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:02:06AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Package: sbuild
> Version: 0.60.0-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: instest-20101120 instest
> 
> While testing the installation of all packages in unstable, I ran
> into the following problem:
> 
> > Removing sbuild ...
> > Purging configuration files for sbuild ...
> > /usr/sbin/delgroup: `user' still has `sbuild' as their primary group!
> > dpkg: error processing sbuild (--purge):
> > subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 7
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > sbuild
> 
> The full build log is available from:
>  http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/11/20/sbuild.log
> 
> It is reproducible by installing your package in a clean chroot, using
> the debconf Noninteractive frontend, and priority: critical.

I can't reproduce this in a clean chroot.

Why is there a user called 'user' with 'sbuild' as their primary
group in the test environment?  Is this something that's been
carried over from the host system?


Thanks,
Roger

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