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

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:13:02PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "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.)
> 
> 104

base-passwd shouldn't have touched that at all, then; only uids 0-99 and
65534 are touched. Can I have a copy of /etc/group.org, please?

> 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.

As above, that's not supposed to happen.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]