Re: colord Warning during upgrade to wheezy

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

Hi.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:13:41AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I just looked at that script.  I agree that as written now that it is
> expected behavior by that script.  But I think the script is not
> written well.  It should create the user first.  It is using adduser
> to create the user.  It should let it create the home directory.  Then
> the spurious message that is printed out during the installation would
> be avoided.  That would be much nicer.
> 
> I don't have the time but I think it would be a good bug to fail
> against the package.  Because the message is truly a spurious one that
> need not be there if the package were perfect.

The adduser executable cannot make user's home directory if such
directory is nested and upper-level directories aren't exist.

Just tested this, and got:

# adduser -d /var/a/b/c test
adduser: cannot create directory /var/a/b/c

I'm unsure whenever the existance of /var/lib is assumed by Debian
Policy, or Debian's current interpretation of FHS.

Reco