Package: jabber-common Version: 0.5 Severity: normal Please do not remove the jabber user on purge. Once a filesystem has a file owned by that user, purging the user removes information valuable to the sysadmin (think backups, log files, etc., as well as possible security implications in some cases).
There was a thread on mentors[0] where there were initially a few dissenting opinions, but the thread ended with four DD's on that thread and a reference to a fifth DD on a different thread asserting that packages should not remove users on purge. ...Marvin [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/10/msg00338.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (700, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rajah.2.0 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages jabber-common depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups jabber-common recommends no packages. jabber-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
