[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Re: Ubuntu's hal changes which are appropriate for Debian

Martin Pitt martin at piware.de
Thu Apr 19 21:23:44 UTC 2007


Hi Michael,

Michael Biebl [2007-04-19 18:14 +0200]:
> > Yes, it is. It is a bad idea to remove users in postrm in general. And
> > since we do not remove the system user, I see no reason to modify it
> 
> Really?
> 
> hal.postrm has
> 
> if [ "$1" = "purge" ] ; then
>         deluser --quiet --system haldaemon > /dev/null || true
>         rmdir /var/run/hal || true
> fi

Whoops, apparently I didn't look hard enough. I will remove this bit
from the Ubuntu packages ASAP.

Thanks for catching this!

Martin


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