Bug#378603: mldonkey-server: upgrade fails when MLDONKEY_USER and MLDONKEY_GROUP are not set

[Wolf Wiegand <wolf@kondancemilch.de>]

Package: mldonkey-server
Version: 2.7.7-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

in the most recent version of mldonkey-server, the absence of the variables
MLDONKEY_USER and MLDONKEY_GROUP prevent mldonkey-server from starting.
Since these variables are freshly introduced, this probably will always
prevent a clean upgrade:

wolf@denkbrett:~ $ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mldonkey-server (2.7.7-4) ...
Please set both variables MLDONKEY_USER and MLDONKEY_GROUP in
/etc/default/mldonkey-server
invoke-rc.d: initscript mldonkey-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mldonkey-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mldonkey-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The upgrade should not fail if mldonkey-server cannot be started, a
warning should be issued instead.

Regards,

Wolf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages mldonkey-server depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.92         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.2        Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.13.22      package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.3-3      high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6                2.2.1-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-9    GCC support library
ii  libgd2-noxpm                2.0.33-4     GD Graphics Library version 2 (wit
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-13        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmagic1                   4.17-2       File type determination library us
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-9      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.0-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxpm4                     1:3.5.4.2-3  X11 pixmap library
ii  mime-support                3.36-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  ucf                         2.0012       Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-13   compression library - runtime

mldonkey-server recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mldonkey-server/max_hard_download_rate: 0
* mldonkey-server/launch_at_startup: false
  mldonkey-server/config_exist_no_options:
  mldonkey-server/plugin: Directconnect, Opennap, Overnet, Soulseek, Bittorent, Gnutella
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_group: mldonkey
  mldonkey-server/false_password:
  mldonkey-server/max_hard_upload_rate: 0
  mldonkey-server/max_alive: 48
  mldonkey-server/run_as_user: mldonkey
  mldonkey-server/reown_file: false
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_niceness: 0
  mldonkey-server/config_exist_no_dir:
  mldonkey-server/fasttrack_problem:
  mldonkey-server/shared_directories: share
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_dir: /var/lib/mldonkey
  mldonkey-server/client_name: thinkpad
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_move: false
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_umask: 0022