Hi,
the postinst script certainly should not parse the lighttpd config (could be
in any shell include...);
you could argue the script shouldn't modify the existing owner.
Imho you should choose a different doc-root (/srv/www, ...) if you don't want
to use system standards like a www-data user.
Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.19-5+lenny1
Severity: important
On my system, lighttpd runs under a non-standard user,
called www-data2. The postinst script sets the ownership
of several directories to www-data:www-data on every
update. After this, lighttpd fails to restart,
because of a permission
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