reopen 830860 reassign 830860 cdebootstrap retitle 830860 cdebootstrap: Please ensure that base-passwd is configured first thanks
Dear cdebootstrap maintainers: It has been pointed to me that cdebootstrap sometimes configures base-files before base-passwd, which makes the whole process to fail because base-files uses chown in its postinst with users which only exist in the system after base-passwd has been configured at least once. (base-files just assumes that base-passwd works, because it's essential, but in this case it is cdebootstrap job to ensure that base-passwd may be used, because we are bootstrapping the system). I have not reproduced the problem. I think the submitter has (he says he is not reporting this as a potential problem but after he actually experienced the problem). Please ensure that this does not happen, regardless of the order in which dpkg decides to configure the packages. By looking at the changelog, I see this entry: * Drop explicit installation of base-passwd. Maybe base-passwd still really needs to be installed first. I'm really sorry that I can't give more details about this, but this is definitely not a bug in base-files and hence the reassign. Thanks.
