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. > That's the problem. All the other package, that use the jabber user > would have to be changed too, so as not to remove the user on purge. If they remove the user on purge, that should be changed anyway. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
