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Bug#89473: PROPOSAL] dpkg-statoverride and Conflicts: suidmanager (<< 0.50)



Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> What's special about dynamic u/gids? You just make sure the user/group
> exists in the preinst, then let dpkg unpack it to the correct id. No need
> for statoverrides at all.

The name of the user/group must be used in the data.tar.gz, which can
only happen if the package is build on a system that has that group.
That might not be possible with autobuilders.

Wichert.

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