On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 05:09:42PM +0000, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > > We had a conversation (here I think) last year about whether programs > > should be trying to automatically remove users in their postrm. IIRC > > the conclusion of that discussion the answer was that they should not, > > at least in the default case. > > > We should double check this, before you submit your MBF, so that > > nformation about what to do can be included in your bug report. > > > In particular, I think this is the wrong advice because IMO the > > correct fix is not to call any of these tools from postrm purge. The relevant bug is this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621833 And I agree with Ian's summary: system users should be created, but not removed. > In that case you got his kind of piuparts error [1], if you did not > remove the homedir of the previously added user. > > What is the right fice for this ? The proper way to fix this is to change piuparts to not complain about home directories that belong to system users created during the package install. -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/
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