On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:37:29AM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > It is unfortunate. I am considering following patch:
> + rm -fr --preserve-root --one-file-system -- "$home" > but I am scared to invoke `rm -fr' with root. I beleive, that deluser would > handle it better then me. Seems somewhat scary to me too. I think just not leaving the directory around would be fine. It's a corner case anyway. (and if the next bug is 'unowned files after purge', I'd argue that it's deluser's problem and not yours...) > Ah, and by the way, why `adduser' package, from which `deluser' binary comes > is still present during post-rm? `adduser' is not Essential, only Important. No idea. Possibly the piuparts torture test could be even more cruel (even if I personally think it's already overdoing it.) > I know that abusing Pre-Depends is frowned upon, but would > Pre-Depends: perl help? I don't think so, sorry. -- Niko
