Package: tomcat6 Version: 6.0.28-6 Severity: normal Here is relevant part of postrm: deluser tomcat6 delgroup tomcat6
I believe this could possibly be: db_get tomcat6/username && TOMCAT6_USER="$RET" || TOMCAT6_USER="tomcat6" db_get tomcat6/groupname && TOMCAT6_GROUP="$RET" || TOMCAT6_GROUP="tomcat6" deluser $TOMCAT6_USER delgroup $TOMCAT6_GROUP I tested this and indeed tomcat6 results in errors upon purge when non-standard user and group are used: On install: Adding system user `tomcat' (UID 106) ... Adding new user `tomcat' (UID 106) with group `tomcat' ... On purge: Purging configuration files for tomcat6 ... /usr/sbin/deluser: The user `tomcat6' does not exist. The group `tomcat6' does not exist. Thank you Misha Koshelev -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tomcat6 depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy ii tomcat6-common 6.0.28-6 Servlet and JSP engine -- common f ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages tomcat6 recommends: ii authbind 1.2.0 Allows non-root programs to bind() Versions of packages tomcat6 suggests: pn tomcat6-admin <none> (no description available) pn tomcat6-docs <none> (no description available) pn tomcat6-examples <none> (no description available) pn tomcat6-user <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml' -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org