On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:18:31PM +0300, George Cristian Bîrzan wrote:
> It is a bug.

As the leading member of the maintainer team, I disagree.

This behavior of exim4-config is best current practice.

Please cite part of policy which mandates a package to remove its
system account.

> While I agree that it may not be feasible to remove all files owned by
> this user, that is what the purge script should do.

This is a very bad idea since there is no way to learn how the account
was used by the local administrator.

> Either way, this is a bug and should be tagged won't fix, as I did.

I don't agree it is a bug. The change proposed in this bug report
would introduce a bug though.

Greetings
Marc

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