question about dependencies
(originally was going to submit a bug, but decided to ask here instead,
so cut/pasted this to here)
Package: slocate
Version: 2.4-2potato1
Severity: normal
I removed adduser from a system here awhile ago. Today, i went to
install slocate
sl:~# apt-get install slocate
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
slocate
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/21.9kB of archives. After unpacking 63.5kB will be used.
debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend
debconf: falling back to Text frontend
Selecting previously deselected package slocate.
(Reading database ... 6383 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking slocate (from .../slocate_2.4-2potato1_i386.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.notslocate by
slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/updatedb to /usr/bin/updatedb.notslocate
by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/locate.notslocate.1.gz by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.notslocate.1.gz by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /etc/cron.daily/find to
/etc/cron.daily/find.notslocate by slocate'
Setting up slocate (2.4-2potato1) ...
Changing permissions on: /usr/bin/slocate
chown: root.slocate: invalid group
dpkg: error processing slocate (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
slocate
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Looks like it uses adduser to add the slocate user. Am I just daft in
my understanding of dependencies?
Does a required package(adduser) end up automatically a dependency for
everything else? If nothing else, maybe it could show the failed
adduser in the postinst script
Mike
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