[Logcheck-devel] Bug#515156: Same bug after removal + reinstall

[Frédéric Brière]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:11AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> When re-installing the logcheck package (which was previously removed,
> but not purged), dpkg will pass the version number of the most recently
> configured version [1] - which in this case would be 1.2.69. And since
> 1.2.69 >= 1.2.39, the chown+chmod in postinst is bypassed...

Bingo.

> I think it would be sensible to do one (or both?) of:
> * chown+chmod unconditionally in postinst
> * make the ownership of /var/lock/logcheck logcheck:logcheck in the .deb

The latter is not an option, since the logcheck user does not have an
assigned UID.  I've therefore applied the former solution.

Thanks for you analysis!


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