Re: Bug#162211: chown: 'man': invalid user -- man-db should create man user if it's missing.

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Colin Watson 

| However, I'm cc'ing this to debian-devel for discussion. If this is
| really what I'm supposed to do, then *all* packages using statically
| allocated uids should be expected to do the same, contrary to current
| Debian policy.

FWIW, mailman creates the list user if it doesn't exist.  (The list
user was added in the 1.2.0-3 upload of Thu 21 Nov 1996.

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