This one time, at band camp, Carl Fürstenberg said: > Per an discussion in IRC about removal of user or groups when purging > packages, I though of asking for comments about a proposal of updating > the policy. > > Basically the idea is that, if a package is creating an user or an > group, that is dynamically allocated, then the package may not remove > that user/group when purging the package. > > The reason is that, first, for dynamically allocated user/groups, more > than one package might use/create the same user/group. > Second, the package in question might create files using that > user/group during it's execution. > Third, recreating the user/group later might not result in the same ID > (I assume at least). > > For static allocated user/groups, I don't think it's a much of a > problem to remove the user/group, as only one package is going to > create that user/group, and it will always have the same ID. > > What do you think? I think it would be helpful to use the previous 400 discussions of the same topic as a starting point, and only bring it up again if there are new arguments. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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