What were you trying to do that didn't work?

The preinstall scripts for dovecot are very repetitive.

What is the impact of this issue to you?

Almost none, but it's somehow slightly annoying.

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

dovecot-2.3.16-14.el9.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?:

Always

Steps to reproduce

1. rpm --scripts -q dovecot | sort | uniq -c | awk '/getent/ && $1 > 1'
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Expected results

Not so much repetition.

Actual results

      2 getent group 'dovecot' >/dev/null || groupadd -f -g '97' -r 'dovecot' || :
      3 getent group 'dovenull' >/dev/null || groupadd -r 'dovenull' || :
      2 getent passwd 'dovenull' >/dev/null || \

I think there's also a bug in the systemd-rpm-macros script /usr/lib/rpm/sysusers.generate-pre.sh, but that's another story. If you

look at the parse function inside there, you'll see that "u" entries implicitly run "g" as well if the group is provided. So there's no need for extra "g" entries. Unless you're

going to tell me that sysusers.generate-pre.sh is not performing according to spec.