On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:43:10AM +0200, Tom Verbreyt wrote: > Once again, I'm not sure if I get this right (i.e. whether it's a bug or > me being stupid), but it doesn't seem like appropriate behavior, so... > > A couple of days ago, I wanted to use GMailFS. Amongst the packages > needed was 'fuse-utils', which asked me for a group to assign the > privilege of running 'fusermount' to. The default choice was "fuse", but > I changed that to "adm". Maybe that wasn't a very good choice, but I > don't think that should make a difference. > > The problem is, when I purged the package today, I noticed it just > removed the "adm" group too, considering it a part, I assume, of it's > configuration that was to be purged. It makes sense when a new group > was created for the purpose, but in this case -- and in any similar case > where someone fills in an already existing group -- I don't think it > should've done that without even asking. I might as well have overlooked > it removing the group, and been left wondering about the "drwxrwxr-x > root 4" ownerships that were all over my system afterwards...
Hello Tom. Well the fact is that if you had debconf configured to show low priority questions then you would see question regarding group deletion. I could raise its priority to be shown even if someone has debconf set to show only medium priority questions. Would it be enough? regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | rlu:172001
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