On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:35:14 +0000, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm being heavily bitten by this one as well and I'm mildly shocked to see it > crop up this late in the release cycle. I'm not going to hide that I believe > this ought to be reassigned to base-files. I'll try to elaborate below. > I agree this should be fixed in base-files.
> > Santiago Vila wrote: > [...] > > In this particular case, I believe the reason for the failure (that > > didn't happen before) is some change in base-passwd, not something > > that base-files does differently now. > > > > I tend to disagree: base-passwd hasn't been touched since 2014-09-04, whereas > debootstrap only started to fail last week, when base-files 7.7 was uploaded. > It's this change I believe: > > http://sources.debian.net/src/base-files/7.7/debian/postinst.in/?hl=132,133,134#L132 > > Causing > > chown: invalid user: 'root:root' > Can't base-files call chown with 0:0 instead of root:root to sidestep this entirely? Cheers, Julien
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