[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#673759: sympa: fails to install: chown: invalid user: `sympa:sympa'

[Emmanuel Bouthenot]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:43:25AM +0200, Etienne MELEARD wrote:
> Creating the dedicated sympa:sympa user is, per the documentation (
> http://www.sympa.org/manual_6.1/installing-sympa#prerequisites ), a
> prerequisite. Does that mean that when packaged the user creation
> should be automated ? I don't know a lot about packaging ...

Actually, the sympa user creation is done too late in the postinst
script regarding the changes introduced in the last upload.

It will be fixed with the next upload which sill occur very soon.

Regards,

M.

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