Hi, On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 05:08:50 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge due > to a command not found. According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the > depends being available during purge, only the essential packages are > available for sure. > > The fix should be easy: your package is using adduser or deluser from > the adduser package, which is only priority important. Using useradd or > userdel from the passwd package (priority required) should fix this > problem. > > There is ongoing discussion how to handle system users on package > removal, see https://bugs.debian.org/621833 > Consensus seems to be not to remove system users (to avoid reusing UIDs > which could grant access to the wrong files) but to "lock" them (where > "locking"/"unlocking" is not yet precisely defined). Until that has > been decided it should be sufficient to have the postrm script ignore > any errors from deluser: > deluser ... || true
since time is running out, would you mind if I NMU kismet with this change and file the unblock request? Thanks! cheers, josch
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