[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Processed: reassign 444370 to base-passwd

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> writes:

Colin> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:06:05PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking
Colin> System wrote:
>> Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
>> 
>> > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version
>> 2.10.7 > reassign 444370 base-passwd Bug#444370: ntp won't
>> reconfigure (ntp group gone) Bug reassigned from package `ntp' to
>> `base-passwd'.

Colin> The ntp group has never been managed by base-passwd, so I don't
Colin> see why a base-passwd upgrade would have removed it unless it
Colin> had an incorrect ID. What ID did it have before base-passwd
Colin> removed it? (Look in the /etc/group.org backup file.)

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Colin> Perhaps the ntp package would be well-advised to ensure that
Colin> the ntp group exists as well as the ntp user (it only
Colin> explicitly creates the latter, and relies on adduser to create
Colin> both, but adduser won't create the group if it got removed
Colin> separately).

Yes.  But it's complicated having several packages managing 
the same file.
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