[Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: The bug looks to be in the postinst script

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.41
Followup-For: Bug #312393


This is an important bug, infact it should be a grave bug.
logcheck doesn't get installed properly. The postrm scripts are designed
to add the logcheck user while having logcheck as its group too.
The logcheck group is nowhere being added as far as I see.
I believe you need to add the group before adding the user.

And all this is breaking the remaining installation process.
The files and directories are not getting chowned from the script.

HTH,
rrs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-bsplash-skas3-v8.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.67                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-91               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.58                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.14.1                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  grep             2.5.1.ds1-5             GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.41                  database of system log rules for t
ii  logtail          1.2.41                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  postfix [mail-tr 2.2.4-1                 A high-performance mail transport 
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

logcheck recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note: