debathena-phyesiodfs requires fuse group; configure fails if it does not exist

[ratinox]

The debathena-phyesiodfs package for Debian (jessie is the only one I've tested) fails to configure when the fuse group does not exist. Manually creating the fuse group (groupadd, vigr, whatever) and restarting the configuration step allows configuration to proceed normally.

Solution: package configuration should check the existence of the fuse group and run an appropriate groupadd command if it does not exist.

[quentin]

The postinst for the fuse package creates the fuse group; how did you get as far as installing debathena-pyhesiodfs without that having been run?

[ratinox]

That's a very good question. The fuse base packages (fuse, libfuse2) weren't installed on my test box prior to this morning's update so this is something fairly recent.

[ratinox]

This may be a Debian packaging bug. On my test box I've run:

aptitude purge fuse
aptitude install fuse

and my /etc/group remains unchanged.

[andersk]

The fuse group is intentionally no longer created in jessie ( Debian:733312).

[slz]

I have created a patch via pull request on Github here:
 https://github.com/mit-athena/pyhesiodfs/pull/3

[vasilvv]

committed  faf196dab6cf2bf81a24efd9e8da1470ecc42680 (Fix postinst so that the package works on jessie) to debian. (patch originally from slz@…)