[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#477143: Bug#477143: logrotate job refers to nonexistent user

[Damyan Ivanov]

clone 477143 -1
retitle -1 split "-server-common" package for firebird user and logrotate
forcemerge 475504 477143
thanks

-=| Peter Eisentraut, Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:19:19PM +0200 |=-
> Package: firebird2.0-common
> Version: 2.0.3.12981.ds1-6
> 
> The logrotate job /etc/logrotate.d/firebird2.0 refers to the user firebird 
> ("create 640 firebird adm"), but the package does not create the user.  So now 
> I get an error message sent from logrotate via cron once a day.

This was fixed in -12, pending migration to testing in two days.

> It would probably be the wrong fix to make the package add the user, because 
> that would currently create a firebird user on every KDE desktop, which most 
> people probably don't want.  Looking at PostgreSQL, there is a 
> postgresql-common and a separate postgresql-client-common package.  Perhaps it 
> would be an idea to split up firebird the same way and put the logrotation 
> business in the server-side common package.

Sounds reasonable. I'll see if more things can be moved in that package,
not only the adduser and logrotate snippet. Cloning a separate bug
report about it.

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