Re: How or if daemon users should be removed

2015-07-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 juillet 2015 12:52 +0200, Jakub Wilk  : >>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. The thread is mostly dead and it seems that at so

Re: How or if daemon users should be removed

2015-07-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > 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

Re: How or if daemon users should be removed

2015-07-01 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Cameron Norman , 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 post

Re: How or if daemon users should be removed

2015-06-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 juin 2015 14:07 -0700, Cameron Norman  : > 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 th

How or if daemon users should be removed

2015-06-30 Thread Cameron Norman
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