[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Please test upgrades

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:52:11PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > If you purge the ntp-server package (from current unstable) after
> > you've upgraded, it removes the ntp user/group.  At that point,
> > you can't start/stop it, or upgrade or whatever.  Not sure what
> > the best way to fix this is yet.
> 
> We should probably move the user creation to the init script.

We'd need to move the rest of the postinst there too in that
case.  Since the purge will also remove the directories.


Kurt