Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 0.8.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
If you do the following: - install apt-cacher-ng - purge apt-cacher-ng - do some more purging of unrelated packages (to free up some uids) - reinstall apt-cacher-ng then you can get into trouble. The reason is that removing apt-cacher-ng deletes the user for the daemon, but does not delete the log directory. When you reinstall the package, the user will be recreated (possibly with a new uid) but the log directory will be left as-is because it already exists, with the old uid. This uid mismatch prevents the daemon from writing to the log directory which prevents it from starting, thus failing the postinst.
