Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: severity wishlist
On 24/11/2015 11:12, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
Dear maintainer,
thanks for your work with this package.
I would expect all things related to ulogd2 to be removed
when the package is purged, however:
% LANG=C sudo aptitude purge ulogd2
[...]
% grep ulog /etc/passwd
ulog:x:112:117::/var/log/ulog:/bin/false
Hi Arturo,
I don't think the package should remove its user or group when it is
removed or purged. The reasons for this are twofold: 1- should there be
any files leftover on your system owned by said user they will now show
up only with their UID/GID numbers, and 2- if you then install another
package the UID/GID will be recycled and they will be owned by the new user.
When ulogd2 is uninstalled it would leave behind /var/log/ulog/ and any
log files within. I don't think it would be appropriate to just delete
those files, either.
I had a scout around other common packages and very few remove the users
they create for this reason.
Regards,
Chris
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Chris Boot
bo...@debian.org
