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



Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Sometimes you cannot, e.g. when you want an override for a dynamically
> created user (created in postinst).  Cyrus21-imapd comes to mind as an
> example.

That is why you create users before you extract the package; that way
dpkg can immediately use the user when creating files.

Wichert.

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