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Add postinst script to add prometheus user

Fabian Weisshaar requested to merge elnappo-guest/prometheus-apache-exporter:add_user_in_postinst into debian/sid

The prometheus user was missing so startup of prometheus-apache-exporter failed with:

systemd[29960]: prometheus-apache-exporter.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
systemd[29960]: prometheus-apache-exporter.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/prometheus-apache-exporter: No such process

Therefor I added the postinst script to create the prometheus user (copied from https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/prometheus-nginx-vts-exporter/blob/debian/sid/debian/postinst). As this is a bugfix, it should also be merged to stretch-backports?

Changes:

  • Add postinst script to create prometheus user
  • Avoid recursive chown calls in SysVinit file
  • Update debhelper compat
  • Update Debian changelog

BTW: I found https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/prometheus-varnish-exporter/blob/master/debian/postinst to be different to the other exporters, maybe worth an update?

Edited by Fabian Weisshaar

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