www-data has id 33, so belongs to the first class described at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#uid-and-gid-
classes
It's therefore reasonable for packaging to assume that it always exists,
so this is not a bug in nginx packaging. In the general case it's not
reasonable for
This said, `www-data` is created by the *system* even if you don't have
any web server installed - the removal of something in the predefined
system users group is potentially 'non-standard' and could introduce
some breakage of things, as seen here.
Digging deeper because I'm not entirely certain
We require more data to determine if this is actually an nginx *bug* or
something else. We need to see the logs regarding the packages not
installing, which are in apt console logs or syslog. Usually the issue
isn't one of it not *installing* but more that it installed but couldn't
complete confi
This is not a maas bug.
Since nginx fails to install and it's a maas dependency, install is
interrupted and can't complete instaling maas.
** Also affects: nginx (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: maas
Status: New => Invalid
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