control: tag -1 +help

> Control: reassign -1 sysuser-helper,sreview-common
> Control: retitle -1 sysuser-helper fails in terrible ways if users exist 
> through NSS modules that are not libnss-unix

> On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 09:53:53AM +0000, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > Package: sreview-common
> > Version: 0.3.0-1~bpo.1
> > Severity: grave
> > User: debian-ad...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: needed-by-DSA-Team
> > 
> > 
> > sreview-common failed to configure.
> > 
> > | Setting up sreview-common (0.3.0-1~bpo.1) ...
> > | usermod: user 'sreview' does not exist in /etc/passwd
[...]

Bad, bad. Oblivious workaround would be create user manually, but let us
dig into the root of problem.

I never worked with NSS, but how did it happen, that useradd {in postinst}
created user in a way, that userdel {in prerm} could not find?

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