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Re: deluser on purge (was: Piuparts testing status update)



On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:16:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> > Every time the discussion has come up so far, there's been an absence of
> > consensus about whether it was correct to attempt to reclaim user ids on
> > purge.

> When does GNU/Linux distributions support 32 Bit UID/GID's?

Debian supports them just fine. Who says it doesn't?

> If the system does not reclaim the UID's in less then 4 weeks I would
> run into trouble since the CURRENT configurations do not have enough.

What does that have to do with what packages do with *system* users?

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