Package: fetchmail Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer(s),
sysusers.d config files allow a package to use declarative configuration instead of manually written maintainer scripts. This also allows image-based systems to be created with /usr/ only, and also allows for factory resetting a system and recreating /etc/ on boot. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html Also deleting system users on remove/purge is widely considered bad practice, as the kernel recycles UIDs/GIDs. So any potential leftover file/directory can then become owned by the next user/group that gets added, with unpredictable consequences. Please find a patch attached to ship a sysusers.d config for fetchmail to create the system user. Thanks!
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