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

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>]

Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> Seems like either fakeroot could be enhanced to handle that, or maybe
> such packages should be restricted to being built with sudo with the
> appropriate checks in debian/rules to ensure that either the user already
> exists, or that running adduser in debian/rules succeeds.

You are missing the point. fakeroot can't handle this, unless you
want it to intercept all attempts to modify /etc/passwd & /etc/group
as well. We need to know the name, not the uid/gid.

Wichert.

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