On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:57:11 -0800 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > > Well, yes, but I don't see why you'd need a globally allocated > > > user. Why don't you just use the same username as the other > > > package? I don't see why that wouldn't work, and I don't see > > > anything in Policy 9.2 that says you shouldn't do that. > > > But it's not nice to let stuff lying around after a purge. > > You should never remove users and groups on purge. Not even if I created them in post-inst? Oh, I didn't know that. That makes the problem go away, of course. Cheer, harry
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