Bug#384857: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#384857: ntp: transition packages needed; ntp-simple removes ntp user on purge

[Julien BLACHE]

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> wrote:

>> Where's the problem in supplying transition packages for the packages
>> you are removing, so as to provide a clean upgrade path ?
>
> There is no problem, if you could point out a specific problem that that 
> needs fixing.

You have an old package, uninstalled but not purged, and its postrm
script will remove, on purge, a system user that your new package
needs. Additionally, you have a daemon running under that user.

You purge the old package, the user goes away while the daemon is
running.

And you don't see the problem ?

I won't even mention the horrible adduser-in-initscript hack. Though a
couple of DDs on IRC had a good laugh with that, once they were done
screaming.

JB.

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