Bug#1035435: webdis: fails to purge - command (deluser|adduser) in postrm not found

[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues]

Hi,

Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2023-05-16 23:35:38)
> On Wed, 03 May 2023 14:45:01 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote:
> > 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 ...

diff -Nru webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/changelog webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/changelog  2020-04-23 01:04:04.000000000 +0200
+++ webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/changelog  2023-05-17 23:56:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+webdis (0.1.9+dfsg-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * ignore deluser not being available in postrm purge (closes: #1035435)
+
+ -- Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org>  Wed, 17 May 2023 
23:56:13 +0200
+
 webdis (0.1.9+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * d/copyright: acknowledge upstream files relocation
diff -Nru webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/webdis.postrm 
webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/webdis.postrm
--- webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/webdis.postrm      2018-08-25 09:53:40.000000000 
+0200
+++ webdis-0.1.9+dfsg/debian/webdis.postrm      2023-05-17 23:56:13.000000000 
+0200
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         fi
         rm -rf $WEBDIS_LOG
 
-        deluser --system webdis
+        deluser --system webdis || true
         ;;
 
     *)

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