Quoting Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no>:
I'd prefer if user creation was just done declaratively and then we could scan the archive. If we have a manually-maintained list, it will get out of sync with reality pretty quickly.
+1 and +1 It would be nice to have some progress on this: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeclarativePackaging