Re: user removal in postrm

2012-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621833 and its merged > bugs are a discussion about changing or setting the policy on this. > The consensus is that packages should never remove the users they > create. I tend to think it sh

Re: user removal in postrm

2012-02-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:02:14PM +0400, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > I have the question about user removal in package's postrm script. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621833 and its merged bugs are a discussion about changing or setting the policy on this. The consensus is th

user removal in postrm

2012-02-25 Thread Alexander GQ Gerasiov
Hi there. I have the question about user removal in package's postrm script. Is this correct? I see the following scenario: Package creates user for internal use only, and there will be no files owned by this user left after package removal. In this case there will be no problem if we remove us