On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And appending this text to section 10.9: > > > > ============ > > If you want files in a package to be owned by a dynamically allocated > > user or group, then you should create the user or group in preinst, so > > that it is present when the package is unpacked. > > ============ > > Objection. There is no way to create any user in preinst as the tool > to do so is not in an essential package.
This is what pre-depends are for.