[Monotone-debian] Bug#437978: Problem Found

[Zack Weinberg]

On Nov 3, 2007 10:56 PM, Berg, Michael <address@hidden> wrote:
> I spent some time going through /var/lib/dpkg/info/monotone-server.postinst
> and noticed that all user:group and permissions settings on lines
> 124-148 were getting done except for the "if"-block on lines 126-140.

Thanks for doing this, and for the nice clear explanation of what is going on.

> As one potential solution, would it work to move the "chown" and "chmod"
> lines to just after the "`id -u monotone 2>/dev/null`" if-block down to
> with all the other "chown" and "chmod" lines being done on a new install?

Yes, I think that's the right fix.  I'll include your patch in 0.37-2.

zw