Package: jabber-muc
Version: 0.8-9
Severity: serious
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertag: toolchain

Your package has a preinst maintainer script, calling adduser. At the same time, your package Depends: adduser, but does not Pre-Depends: adduser. Installing your package fails when adduser is not yet configured.

Reproducer:

$ mmdebstrap --variant=essential --include=jabber-muc unstable /dev/null
...
Selecting previously unselected package jabber-muc.
Preparing to unpack .../12-jabber-muc_0.8-9_arm64.deb ...
warn: `/etc/adduser.conf' does not exist. Using defaults.
Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserLogging.pm line 161.
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-J8T5y3/12-jabber-muc_0.8-9_arm64.deb (--unpack):
new jabber-muc package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 25
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-J8T5y3/12-jabber-muc_0.8-9_arm64.deb
E: Sub-process env returned an error code (1)


You may consider replacing adduser with a sysusers fragment, see https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/dh_installsysusers.1.en.html

Otherwise, please Pre-Depend on adduser.

Best,
Chris

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Bug #1104578 [jabber-muc] jabber-muc: preinst fails, calls adduser without Pre-Depend-ing on it
Added tag(s) patch.

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On 2025-05-04 21:56, Pirate Praveen wrote:

The following debdiff should fix this bug, but I have not tested it.

There are three issues with the patch:

1. It seems, that debian/rules must be appended with:

# Can be dropped in compat level 14
execute_after_dh_installinit:
dh_installsysusers

2. The sysusers should be:

#Type Name ID GECOS Home directory Shell
g jabber -
u jabber -:jabber "Jabber User" /var/lib/jabberd2

3. But even then the chown in postinst happens *before* the group and
user are created. No idea how to fix that.

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On Wed, 07 May 2025 20:30:00 +0000 Martin <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

On 2025-05-07 16:29, Pirate Praveen wrote:

On Tue, 06 May 2025 21:54:57 +0000 Martin <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

3. But even then the chown in postinst happens *before* the group and
user are created. No idea how to fix that.

May be we can explicitly call systemctl restart systemd-sysusers.service

before we run chmod ?

That, or just move the calls to chown below the #DEBHELPER# line?
(Of course, guarded with an if [ "$1" == "configure" ]; ...)

Any chance we get a fix before the auto-rm bot removes this package from trixie?

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tags 1104578 + pending

Bug #1104578 [jabber-muc] jabber-muc: preinst fails, calls adduser without Pre-Depend-ing on it
Added tag(s) pending.

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