Hi Carsten, thanks for the report. The reason behind this was to get Debian and Ubuntu versions of Libvirt closer together from what they derived over the years. On of these changes was the naming of the group that owns directories/files and so on.
To allow to have the new name on any new installation as well as upgrades, but at the same time do not mess with old scripts that might insist on the old naming this was created as an "alias". Not the most official source, but as in [1]. In some sense I'd doubt that groupadd would have a "--non-unique" option if it would be a generally invalid configuration. And it did support so since "pre-history" in the sense that [2] only goes back to 2007 and this was already supported before - I could not find older history when I was looking for a better link to prove that this is ok - but given that this is supported such a long time as well as fixed every now and then (instead of dropped) I think that is an invalid bug for now. But I'd still let Serge comment on this as well as he was part of the development and discussions back then - so I subscribed him here. [1]: https://superuser.com/questions/1072428/group-alias-in-linux [2]: https://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/ ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1681470 Title: [ocata] libvirt-daemon-system package post scriptlet of Ubuntu-Cloud Occata for Xenial breaks /etc/group To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1681470/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
