Bug#884964: using "su - " in postinst causing some installs to fail
Thank you again, Simon, for your concise explanations.
We do have a policy on shell usage and the snippets were tested against
those shells, but not against /bin/sh. My fault, I'm afraid, since I
hadn't considered system users. We'll be adding that to our policy.
I've sent the info to the two packages I filed bug reports for.
Hopefully, the next time someone runs into the issue, they'll be able to
come across these discussions and resolve it quickly.
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Terry
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