Hi, I'd like to package mu-conference 0.7 (multi-user chat component for jabber). The version currently in Debian (jabber-muc 0.6.0) uses the user ``jabber'', which is created by jabber-common, on which jabber-muc depends.
The new version can be installed stand-alone, and thus there won't be any dependence on jabber anymore, or jabberd2, for that matter. AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using the same user. So jabber-muc needs to create its own user. On update, that's no problem. The post-install script can chown the package's directories for the new user. But a downgrade would then not be possible. The old version couldn't access the directories. Is there precedence for such a situation? How can it be resolved? Cheers, harry
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