Yes, I think that is a bug in the package, but it does not explain the failure during upgrade, as the failing code IIUC is only called after the call to adduser, which should create it at that time.
I think /var/run nowadays lives in /run which is cleaned on reboot (is /var/run a symlink to /run on your system?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241211 Title: speech-dispatcher could not be installed when upgrading from Kubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1241211/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
