Package: dh-sysuser Version: 1.3 Severity: wishlist I think that, under certain circumstances, users should be completely removed along with their $HOME directory when the package is purged.
I think this is a reasonable expectation of Debian packages. Some packages (e.g. mysql, iirc) explicitly prompt the user through debconf to confirm file removal, which could be an option here as well. I understand why the user is disabled when the package is removed right now, but in my use case (IRC bot) there isn't much state left behind and i believe it's fine to remove the files on purge. Disabling the user could be done on "remove". -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dh-sysuser depends on: ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 dh-sysuser recommends no packages. dh-sysuser suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
