Hey.

I've just noted, that when purging the package, at least the user
is left behind and not removed.

Any reason for that?


Cheers,
Chris.

I think leaving the logcheck user behind on purge is actually best
practice because it may still own files (eg in /etc/logcheck if that
was stored in a version control system).

piuparts does not object to this, and i think other packages take this
approach too.

suggest closing this post bookworm, assuming no-one objects

https://lists.debian.org/deity/2023/05/msg00014.html

thread says adduser to be removed from 'essential' -  logcheck will
need to depend on adduser post bookworm

There is also this bug against policy asking for a central policy on
system users https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621833
- looks like logcheck is indeed following
the rough consensus by not removing the user on purge