[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#680130: lighttpd: Installation on Raspberry Pi fails because www-data user and group don't exist

[Simon Whitaker]

Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.28-2+squeeze1
Severity: important


When installing on a Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) running
Debian 'squeeze' (specifically the image debian6-19-04-2012.zip available at
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads), the command `sudo apt-get install 
lighttpd` fails with the following error message:

    Unpacking lighttpd (from .../lighttpd_1.4.28-2+squeeze1_armel.deb) ...
    Processing triggers for man-db ...
    Setting up lighttpd (1.4.28-2+squeeze1) ...
    chown: invalid user: `www-data:www-data'
    dpkg: error processing lighttpd (--configure):
     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
    configured to not write apport reports
                                          Errors were encountered while
processing:
     lighttpd
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Running `sudo adduser --system --group www-data` and then re-running the
install command results in lighttpd being installed correctly.

I'd suggest that the www-data user/group should be set up as part of the
package installation.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv6l)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.9+
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lighttpd depends on:
ii  libattr1                1:2.4.44-2       Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.3-2         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfam0                 2.7.0-17         Client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-8        GCC support library
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.23-7.2       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpcre3                8.02-1.1         Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8o-4squeeze7 SSL shared libraries
ii  libterm-readline-perl-p 1.0303-1         Perl implementation of Readline li
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mime-support            3.48-1           MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lighttpd recommends:
ii  spawn-fcgi                    1.6.3-1    A fastcgi process spawner

Versions of packages lighttpd suggests:
ii  apache2-utils          2.2.16-6+squeeze7 utility programs for webservers
ii  openssl                0.9.8o-4squeeze12 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
pn  rrdtool                <none>            (no description available)

-- no debconf information