Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:15:38PM +0900, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> Also, docker user is created in postinst, but not removed on purge >> neither. Could you please fix it? Thank you very much. > > https://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts > > I don't believe that's needed. I don't really mind either way, but > purging and re-installing may give the user a new uid, which is a huge > pain if you have any files owned by the daemon on the machine that you > backed up. > > I think we're pretty split on if we should do this, is there a good > reason besides "it looks ugly in /etc/passwd" or something?
Not really. To be honest I think you're right and I didn't think about the issue you mentioned above (thanks for pointing that out, it's good to know ;-)), so it should be probable be left as is it for the user at least. Cheers, -- Arnaud Fontaine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
