On 2012-03-04 17:20, Michael Meskes wrote: >> I'm talking about the package that is responsible for that file and >> needs to clean this up on remove/purge. > > Well the directory is the home directory of the user created in bucardo's > postinst. Removing that directory would leave a broken user account. I'm not > sure but I doubt policy mandates deleting users. If it does please point me to > the right place.
There is discussion about handling system users (http://bugs.debian.org/621833) and consensus seems to be to keep system users on package remove/purge to avoid reuse of the uid, but lock them (yet unspecified how to do this). Removing the home directory should not be a problem. Shipping /var/lib/bucardo as empty directory in the package would dpkg have clean this up on remove/purge. A chmod/chown after the adduser call in postinst may be necessary. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
