I was just bit by this too, spampd complaining about not having permissions to /var/cache/spampd, which does appear to have root:root perms. On a fresh Trixie system:
apt install spampd [...] root@11test1-spampd-test:~# ls -ld /var/cache/spampd drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 9 22:32 /var/cache/spampd root@11test1-spampd-test:~# Fixed for now with this: chown spampd:debian-spamd /var/cache/spampd chmod 0775 /var/cache/spampd ...could this be added to the postinst script? Best - -- Mark
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