[Logcheck-devel] logcheck: adduser in preinst?

[Todd Troxell]

Hello,

We have got a rare race condition in logcheck in which a cron job can attempt
to run during the install but before postinst, where the adduser happens.

This was reported[1] in #284788.  

Moving the adduser to preinst would close this bug, but I've heard it's
sometimes naughty to adduser in preinst. :>

What do you think about this case?

Also, would this really require a pre-depends even though adduser is in base?

Cheers,
-Todd

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284788
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[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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