[debhelper-devel] Bug#879643: debhelper: dh_usrlocal tries to chown to root:group which fails because group is not valid

[Paul Gevers]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10.10.2
Severity: important

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dh_usrlocal adds the following to my maintainerscript for cacti:
# Automatically added by dh_usrlocal/10.10.2
if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
(
	while read line; do
		set -- $line
		dir="$1"; mode="$2"; user="$3"; group="$4"
		if [ ! -e "$dir" ]; then
			if mkdir "$dir" 2>/dev/null; then
				chown "$user":"$group" "$dir"
				chmod "$mode" "$dir"
			fi
		fi
	done
) << DATA
/usr/local/share 02775 root group
/usr/local/share/cacti 02775 root group
/usr/local/share/cacti/resource 02775 root group
/usr/local/share/cacti/resource/script_queries 02775 root group
/usr/local/share/cacti/resource/script_server 02775 root group
/usr/local/share/cacti/resource/snmp_queries 02775 root group
/usr/local/share/cacti/scripts 02775 root group
DATA

which is wrong, because group doesn't exist on my system. As a result, the
generated package fails to install (hence the severity). The manual says it
should be saying staff instead. The directories are created by a debian/dirs
file, so they are not created by me with the wrong group during build time
(anyways, also in my build env, that group doesn't exist).

Paul

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