On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi > chown: `netsaint': invalid user > > > > I have seen several packages which do this and fail, > and what is the proper way to fix that ?
This sort of thing is supposed to be done in postinst, guarded by a check for a statoverride. It may be possible to extend fakeroot to put it in the .deb and create the user in preinst, though I haven't thought much about it and it's usually not worth the trouble. -- - mdz
