[Bug 222761] Re: [SRU] upsd doesn't start NOT 221737

[Martin Pitt]

         if [ -z `getent group nut` ]; then
                 addgroup --quiet --system nut
-#       else
-#               printf "error: user \"nut\" already exists... see /usr/share/doc/nut/README.Debian\n"  &&  exit 1
+       else
+               printf "skipping: user \"nut\" already exists... see /usr/share/doc/nut/README.Debian\n"
         fi
 }

Chuck, can you please explain how that changes the behavior? As far as I
can see, this patch just triggers an additional warning message to
appear (which is not good packaging, anyway; it will hardly be noticed).
Steve, what was "the problem" when you tested upgrade? Did the upgrade
fail (i. e. did addgroup error out because the group already existed),
or was the problem that an already existing nut user isn't in some
important group?

The nut user and group should *not* be removed on purging the package,
BTW. That's common and good Debian practice for daemons which create
files or processes owned by that system user. Otherwise the uid/gid
would be recycled on next adduser, and existing files/processes would
get owned by that new user.

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[SRU] upsd doesn't start NOT 221737
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222761
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