Package: frr Version: 10.2.1-1 Severity: normal Dear maintainer,
the stateoverride added in postinst is not removed when the package is removed/purged. This can cause an error upon reinstallation if the user frr has been removed after the package was purged. a) install frr b) purge frr c) userdel -r frr; usergroup frrvty d) install frr: (...) Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 frr-pythontools all 10.2.1-1 [39.9 kB] Fetched 7,090 kB in 0s (33.6 MB/s) dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unknown system user 'frr' in statoverride file; the system user got removed before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you can remove the override manually with dpkg-statoverride Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) $ dpkg-statoverride --list root messagebus 4754 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper frr frr 700 /etc/frr $ sudo grep frr /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group $
