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

[Arno Töll]

tags 680130 wontfix
thanks

Hi Simon,


On 03.07.2012 22:55, Simon Whitaker wrote:
>     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

this is a non-standard behavior on Rasperry Pis. Apparently they
modified the pristine Debian image in a way we don't support. On Debian
proper the user "www-data" is created by the base-passwd package and
guaranteed to be existing on all Debian systems [1] unconditionally.

I do not intend to fix this. Instead, report a bug to the suppliers of
your Debian image.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.2

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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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