Bug#788657: libutempter0: doesn't clean up unused/retired utempter group
Hi,
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:35:31 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:
> Package: libutempter0
> Version: 1.1.6-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hi.
>
> Apparently with this release the group utempter is no longer used.
> This doesn't seem to be one of the "base groups" as defined by the
> base-passwd package.
>
> It is however not properly cleaned up, so legacy installations
> would keep it forever without any good reason.
>
> Could you please clean that up in one of the following uploads?
You can't be certain that there are no files on the system that have
been chgrp to that group.
If the group is removed its gid might get reused.
The cost of having one more entry in /etc/group is really small so
I've decided not to remove the group on upgrade.
See also https://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts
for some more discussion about the pros and cons of removing accounts.
Cheers,
Felix
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