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



Previously Colin Watson wrote:
> So what is man-db expected to do in the short term? I assume the package
> is correct as it is until base-passwd changes are complete.

Lets see.. hmm, weird statoverrides handling there, you should really
set that in the preinst or once in a .config run.

Current base-passwd will guarantee that the man user always exists,
so man-db does not need to create it. So the woody package at least
seems correct.

Wichert.

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