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Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section



Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> And appending this text to section 10.9:
> 
> ============
> If you want files in a package to be owned by a dynamically allocated
> user or group, then you should create the user or group in preinst, so
> that it is present when the package is unpacked.
> ============

Objection.  There is no way to create any user in preinst as the tool
to do so is not in an essential package.
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