Re: How or if daemon users should be removed

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Cameron Norman <camerontnorman@gmail.com>, 2015-06-30, 14:07:
> I have a package (apt-p2p) that I want to adopt that removes its daemon 
> with deluser in postrm (on purge). This causes issues (piuparts 
> complains) because deluser is not essential and dependent packages are 
> not guaranteed to be installed at the time of postrm.
>
> So, should I:
>
> * Not remove the user on purge (as I have seen done in other packages)

There seem to be consensus that system users should not be removed. 
Please see bug #621833 for details.

> * Remove it in prerm after the debhelper section

I wouldn't do that.

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Jakub Wilk