[Adduser-devel] Bug#372599: Fails to purge

[Stephen Gran]

tags 372599 +pending
thanks
This one time, at band camp, Jochen Friedrich said:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> while the order of commands in snmpd.postrm might not be optimal,
> this is rather a bug of deluser --system returning an error on
> non-existing users while the man page states it doesn't.
> 
> With adduser 3.85:
> 
> # deluser --quiet --system blabla; echo $?
> 0
> 
> With adduser 3.87:
> 
> # deluser --quiet --system blabla; echo $?
> 2
> 
> This is what the man page says:
> 
> --system
>               Only delete if user/group is a system  user/group.  This  avoids
>               accidentally  deleting non-system users/groups. Additionally, if
>               the user does not exist, no error value is returned. This option
>               is mainly for use in Debian package maintainer scripts.
> 
> Thus reassigning to adduser.

Fixed in svn.  Thanks.
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