Stephen Gran wrote: > I recently filed a bug (http://bugs.debian.org/249354) on a package > because I felt it did not clean up after itself. The problem was the > package creates a system user account, and does not remove it on purge. > The maintainer disagrees, and says that system accounts should never be > removed by packages. I disagree, but do not feel hugely strongly about > it - I ask mostly because I also maintain a package which creates a system > account, only I _do_ remove them on purge. I am wondering which way > people think is the correct way to handle this? I think if you added the user, it is a unique user id not used by anthing other than your package, then you should remove it on purge. Bob
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