Possible post install script error when specifying a custom gitosis user.

[Nicolas Tisserand]

Binary package hint: gitosis

If the custom user partially matches another user, the post install script fails, pretending the user already exists.

The attached patch should fix this issue.

[Nicolas Tisserand (nicolas-tisserand)]

In my case, using "git" instead of the default "gitosis" user triggered the issue because the gitweb and git-daemon-run packages had already configured "*git*" matching system users.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for the patch, could you perhaps try and forward this upstream too?

[Nicolas Tisserand (nicolas-tisserand)]

Hi Nigel,

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Nigel Babu <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for the patch, could you perhaps try and forward this upstream
> too?

I'm very new to the whole Ubuntu software process.
What exactly does "try and forward this upstream" involve?
Do you have pointers to documentation I could read so that I won't ask
dumb questions like the previous one anymore?

Thanks.
--
Nicolas

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This bug is resolved in Debian experimental already. I filed bug 823032 to sync the latest version from experimental into Oneiric.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

-14 synced into Oneiric.