Hi! On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 12:32:30 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Right now I'm actually considering going over the archive and sending > > patches to convert Debian-user and debian-user to _user…
> Make it active only for new installs, and you will have bypassed the > most troublesome issue. Just be *extremely* careful to actually do the > right thing on removal/purge when the package removes the user (some > don't, which is arguably MUCH safer), because you must *not* remove the > legacy user when both exists. I actually don't think this kind of partial conversion is good, because it makes the future handling in the package more difficult, and then we have to support those split-brain states, etc. Also renaming a user is actually trivial: usermod -l _something Debian-something possibly in addition to some directories on the filesystem, or home dir on the passwd db (which can also be handled with usermod). Thanks, Guillem
