[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#408361: firebird2-common: must pre-depend on adduser, not depend on it

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: firebird2-common
Version: 1.5.3.4870-11
Severity: serious
Usertags: grid5000 piuparts rcness-questionable

Hi,

During a piuparts run over all the packages in etch, I ran into a
problem with your package:
Selecting previously deselected package liblocale-gettext-perl.
(Reading database ... 9717 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liblocale-gettext-perl (from .../liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libtext-iconv-perl.
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Selecting previously deselected package libtext-charwidth-perl.
Unpacking libtext-charwidth-perl (from .../libtext-charwidth-perl_0.04-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libtext-wrapi18n-perl.
Unpacking libtext-wrapi18n-perl (from .../libtext-wrapi18n-perl_0.06-5_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package debconf-i18n.
Unpacking debconf-i18n (from .../debconf-i18n_1.5.11_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package debconf.
Unpacking debconf (from .../debconf_1.5.11_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package passwd.
Unpacking passwd (from .../passwd_1%3a4.0.18.1-6_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package adduser.
Unpacking adduser (from .../archives/adduser_3.101_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package firebird2-common.
Unpacking firebird2-common (from .../firebird2-common_1.5.3.4870-11_all.deb) ...
adduser: `/etc/adduser.conf' does not exist. Using defaults.
Adding system user `firebird' (UID 104) ...
Adding new group `firebird' (GID 105) ...
Adding new user `firebird' (UID 104) with group `firebird' ...
Password:

Since adduser is in Depends, not Pre-depends, it is not configured yet at this
point. You should pre-depend on it, so it is configured at preinst time (or
move your adduser call to postinst, if that's possible).
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