Package: postgresql-common
Version: 94lenny1
Severity: normal
The ssl-cert package creates the ssl-cert group in its postinst.
postgresql-common does:
if getent group ssl-cert >/dev/null; then
adduser --quiet postgres ssl-cert
fi
to add the postgres user to this group, but only if it exists.
I believe this was introduced with
postgresql-common (92) unstable; urgency=low
* Demote ssl-cert Depends: to Recommends:. (Closes: #498406)
-- Martin Pitt <mp...@debian.org> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:42:31 +0100
since policy says "A package will not be configured unless all of the
packages listed in its `Depends' field have been correctly
configured." but it says no such thing about Recommends...
There's an attempt to fix this in:
postgresql-8.3 (8.3.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add dependency to ssl-cert. This has always been implicitly there through
postgresql-common, but when upgrading -8.3 and ssl-cert at the same time,
apt does not ensure to configure ssl-cert before postgresql-8.3 if there
is no direct dependency. (Closes: #501690)
-- Martin Pitt <mp...@debian.org> Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:28:34 +0200
but I don't see any reason that would actually help, since the
postgresql-8.3 ordering is irrelevant, at least on fresh installs.
I've actually observed this in a lenny-based install:
> Setting up postgresql-client-common (94lenny1) ...
> Setting up postgresql-client-8.3 (8.3.7-0lenny1) ...
> Setting up postgresql-common (94lenny1) ...
> Setting up openssl-blacklist (0.4.2) ...
> Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.23) ...
> Setting up postgresql-8.3 (8.3.7-0lenny1) ...
that is, the inconsistency is real (I found this by looking at why an
upgraded system and a newly installed system differed.) If
postgresql-8.3 is going to include the dependency *anyway*, perhaps
debbugs#498406 should just be reverted?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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