On Sun, Mar 01, 2026 at 03:35:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andrew Bower, le dim. 01 mars 2026 11:51:31 +0000, a ecrit: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 12:01:48AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > opensysusers' systemd-sysusers fails to create the _ssh group: > > > > > > Setting up openssh-client (1:10.2p1-5) ... > > > groupadd: invalid group ID '' > > > chgrp: invalid group: ‘_ssh’ > > > dpkg: error processing package openssh-client (--configure): > > > old openssh-client package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed > > > with exit status 1 > > > > > > the content of openssh-client.conf is just > > > > > > g _ssh > > > > > > I guess opensysusers somehow doesn't like not having even "- -", while > > > systemd is fine with that. > > > > What do you think of this patch? > > It does work fine indeed.
There is a question of whether upstream would accept [1] a patch for behaviour not covered in the spec and if not whether to carry a permanent delta in the Debian package. My feeling is it is best to support the files that are in actual use in packages otherwise the package simply won't be useful for Debian users! [1] https://github.com/cromerc/opensysusers/issues/5#issuecomment-2352877003
