Re: non-essential adduser poses problems to purging packages
On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 12:20:07PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
> On 5/8/23 03:30, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>
> > By making it essential, we recognize the status quo and document it. We
> > can the proceed with retrying adduser removal in a more structured way.
>
> I'm not even sure users should be removed when purging packages, and I dimly
> remember we used to leave accounts behind because there was no good way to
> ensure that UIDs were completely unused and could be recycled.
A good part of the work done on adduser in this cycle was to make
adduser behave consistently enough that this behavior could finally be
put in Policy. I regret that this was not quick enough for bookworm.
Greetings
Marc
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