On 26 March 2015 at 19:01, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| 
| Am Donnerstag, 26. März 2015, 12:48:37 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > On 26 March 2015 at 18:03, Alexander Schlarb wrote:
| > | Package: r-base-core
| > | Version: 3.1.1-1+b2
| > | Severity: grave
| > | Justification: renders package unusable
| > | 
| > | When installing the package `r-base-core` (or anything that depends on it)
| > | on a clean jessie install (not upgraded) then the depricated "staff"
| > | group will not
| > Uh-oh.  When did 'staff' get deprecated?
| > 
| > Do we have a list of still-supported groups? [Ok, went looking via a quick
| > docker image for 'jessie'.]
| > 
| > I'll change it to a group I create, something like rpkgs.
| > 
| > | exist and the calls to `chown root:staff /usr/local/lib/R` and `chown
| > | root:staff /usr/local/lib/R/site-library` will fail. This prevents the
| > | package (and any dependant packages) from being configured correctly.
| > 
| > The package is used to widely (eg by all r-cran-* packages) that I am a
| > little surprised it has not come up earlier.
| 
| For what it's worth, I do not recall having problems with my jessie pbuilder 
| chroot (i386) and manually debootstrapped chroots (for amd64 and armel) that 
I 
| used for the recent backport of R 3.1.3 to jessie. I think if I would have 
had 
| to manually add the "staff" group I would remember... I suspect it is not 
| really gone yet.

Seconded.

There really are hundreds of automated builds happening based on top of
r-base, both within Debian (and Ubuntu).  

Can you point us to an actual change where it is made clear that 'staff' is
gone.

Uploading 3.1.3-2 with s/staff/adm/ would be quick.  I made the change.

Dirk

| 
| I did not find anything in the draft release notes either, just some 
transition 
| plan in #29007. Alexander, could we be educated further? Even if /usr/local 
| were not to be owned by root:staff any more, does this mean the group will be 
| gone in jessie?
| 
| Johannes
| 
| > 
| > Dirk
| > 
| > | -- System Information:
| > | Debian Release: 8.0
| > | 
| > |   APT prefers testing
| > |   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
| > | 
| > | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
| > | Foreign Architectures: i386
| > | 
| > | Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-999-lowlatency (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
| > | Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| > | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| > | Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
| > | 
| > | Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
| > | ii  libblas3 [libblas.so.3]            1.2.20110419-10
| > | ii  libbz2-1.0                         1.0.6-7+b2
| > | ii  libc6                              2.19-15
| > | ii  libcairo2                          1.14.0-2.1
| > | ii  libgfortran3                       4.9.2-10
| > | ii  libglib2.0-0                       2.42.1-1
| > | ii  libgomp1                           4.9.2-10
| > | ii  libice6                            2:1.0.9-1+b1
| > | ii  libjpeg62-turbo                    1:1.3.1-12
| > | ii  liblapack3 [liblapack.so.3]        3.5.0-4
| > | ii  liblzma5                           5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
| > | ii  libopenblas-base [liblapack.so.3]  0.2.12-1
| > | ii  libpango-1.0-0                     1.36.8-3
| > | ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                1.36.8-3
| > | ii  libpaper-utils                     1.1.24+nmu4
| > | ii  libpcre3                           2:8.35-3.3
| > | ii  libpng12-0                         1.2.50-2+b2
| > | ii  libquadmath0                       4.9.2-10
| > | ii  libreadline6                       6.3-8+b3
| > | ii  libsm6                             2:1.2.2-1+b1
| > | ii  libtcl8.5                          8.5.17-1
| > | ii  libtiff5                           4.0.3-12.2
| > | ii  libtk8.5                           8.5.17-1
| > | ii  libx11-6                           2:1.6.2-3
| > | ii  libxext6                           2:1.3.3-1
| > | ii  libxss1                            1:1.2.2-1
| > | ii  libxt6                             1:1.1.4-1+b1
| > | ii  ucf                                3.0030
| > | ii  unzip                              6.0-16
| > | ii  xdg-utils                          1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4
| > | ii  zip                                3.0-8
| > | ii  zlib1g                             1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
| > | 
| > | Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
| > | iu  r-base-dev     3.1.1-1
| > | ii  r-doc-html     3.1.1-1
| > | iu  r-recommended  3.1.1-1
| > | 
| > | Versions of packages r-base-core suggests:
| > | pn  ess                     <none>
| > | iu  r-base-html             3.1.1-1
| > | pn  r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf  <none>
| > | pn  r-mathlib               <none>
| > | 
| > | -- no debconf information
| -- 
| PD Dr. Johannes Ranke
| Kronacher Str. 8
| 79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen

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