[med-svn] [Git][med-team/gnumed-client][master] 2 commits: Stop deleting system users on purge

[Andreas Tille (@tille)]

Andreas Tille pushed to branch master at Debian Med / gnumed-client


Commits:
c855c160 by Luca Boccassi at 2026-06-26T20:08:58+01:00
Stop deleting system users on purge

This is widely considered bad practice, as the kernel recycles UIDs/GIDs.
So any potential leftover file/directory can then become owned by the next
user/group that gets added, with unpredictable consequences.

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f4304382 by Luca Boccassi at 2026-06-26T20:43:24+01:00
Install and use sysusers.d/tmpfiles.d config files

sysusers.d/tmpfiles.d config files allow a package to use declarative
configuration instead of manually written maintainer scripts. This also
allows image-based systems to be created with /usr/ only, and also
allows for factory resetting a system and recreating /etc/ on boot.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/tmpfiles.d.html

Note that this does not require a hard dependency on systemd,
debhelper generates depetencies correctly so that they work out
of the box on non-systemd and non-linux Debian builds seamlessly.

- - - - -


5 changed files:

- debian/control
- − debian/gnumed-client-de.postinst
- − debian/gnumed-client-de.prerm
- + debian/gnumed-client-de.sysusers
- + debian/gnumed-client-de.tmpfiles


Changes:

=====================================
debian/control
=====================================
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Section: misc
 Build-Depends:
  debhelper-compat (= 13),
  dh-sequence-cruft,
+ dh-sequence-installsysusers,
  po-debconf,
  python3,
  dh-sequence-python3,
@@ -107,7 +108,6 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends:
  gnumed-client (= ${source:Version}),
  ${misc:Depends},
- adduser,
 Recommends:
  wgerman-medical,
  hunspell-de-med,


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debian/gnumed-client-de.postinst deleted
=====================================
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-set -e
-
-PROG=gnumed
-GROUP=${PROG}
-
-KVKDIR=/var/spool/kvkd/
-
-TESTGROUP=`getent group ${GROUP}` || true
-if [ -z "${TESTGROUP}" ] ; then
-        addgroup --system "${GROUP}" >/dev/null
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$KVKDIR" ] ; then
-    mkdir -p "$KVKDIR"
-    chgrp $GROUP "$KVKDIR"
-    chmod 2774 "$KVKDIR"
-fi
-
-#DEBHELPER#


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debian/gnumed-client-de.prerm deleted
=====================================
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# prerm script for gnumed-client-de
-#
-# see: dh_installdeb(1)
-
-set -e
-
-PROG=gnumed
-GROUP=${PROG}
-
-KVKDIR=/var/spool/kvkd/
-
-case "$1" in
-    remove|purge)
-	if [ "$1" = "purge" ] ; then
-	    TESTGROUP=`getent group ${GROUP}` || true
-	    if [ ! -z "${TESTGROUP}" ] ; then
-		delgroup "${GROUP}" >/dev/null
-	    fi
-	fi
-	if [ -d "$KVKDIR" ] ; then
-	    rm -rf "$KVKDIR"
-	fi
-    ;;
-    upgrade|failed-upgrade|abort-install|abort-upgrade|disappear)
-    ;;
-
-    *)
-        echo "prerm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
-        exit 1
-    ;;
-esac
-
-# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
-# generated by other debhelper scripts.
-
-#DEBHELPER#
-
-exit 0


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debian/gnumed-client-de.sysusers
=====================================
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+g gnumed


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debian/gnumed-client-de.tmpfiles
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+d /var/spool/kvkd 2774 root gnumed



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