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Bug#981918: dh-sysuser: Removes user on purge (against project consensus)

From	Lorenzo Puliti <plorenzo@disroot.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#981918: dh-sysuser: Removes user on purge (against project consensus)
Date	2021-02-05 05:10 +0100
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Package: dh-sysuser
Version: 1.3.5
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: plorenzo@disroot.org

Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> in #981683

> Further development seems like a good idea. [...]
> As far as I can tell,project consensus is that system users 
> should not be removed on purge, but dh-sysuser does so.

Reminder for myself:
Check users removal on purge (maybe makes sense to remove if
home is set to nonexistent?)
This will be dealt with after Bullseye release


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit)

Versions of packages dh-sysuser depends on:
ii  perl  5.32.0-6

dh-sysuser recommends no packages.

dh-sysuser suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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