Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 07:07:50PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > It's my understanding, that there is no clear consensus what should
> > happen on package purge. Some packages do manually remove system users
> > and go to some length to find files/directories owned by a system
> > user/group and remove them.
> > Some maintainers are of the opinion, that a system user once created
> > should not be removed again.
> > I think both viewpoints are valid, but the never-remove-a-system-user is
> > probably the safer approach.
>
> I actually thought we had consensus that system users should not be removed,
> [...]
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228692#33
[I'm a nosy bystander; apologies if this is unhelpful.]
While looking for dh_installsysusers, I found this:
https://salsa.debian.org/runit-team/dh-sysuser
Which says this:
=head2 CRUFT OF SYSTEM USERS
While it is easy to create system user (and user in general),
it is hard to say, when it is safe to remove it.
What should happen to its home directory?
What about files outside of home directory?
There was some of discussion (#848239, #848240), and
no simple and definitive solution arised.
So far, dh-sysuser do the following on package removal: [...]
I didn't see #848239 mention anywhere in this thread yet, so
I'm mentioning it just in case it helps.
