On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:30:25AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Are there any guarantees on semantics for package removals? Will the
> user/group be removed from /etc/{passwd,group} or not? Will it remove
> the home directory? What happens if the home directory is not empty?
> Will it remove files owned by that user/group elsewhere? I recall
> different packages have different preferences on these topics.see #228692 from 20024, or maybe directly jump to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228692#63 from at least 2020. To quote Russ once again: 'I think Policy should say something like "created users and groups should not be removed by default, but may be removed on purge if the local administrator explicitly requests this, either for that package or as a system-wide default." I think this is still the best practice, even if underdocumented. Finally I'd like to add that I would not remove home directories even on purge, unless they are empty. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
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