Bug#287899: Vdr should not be released unless this bug is fixed

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña may or may not have written...

[snip]
> Also notice that the patch provided to this bug is not correct:

> 1.- the postinst will not check if the user exists before creating. It
> should do something like:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[snip]
>           addgroup --quiet --system $HONEYUSERGROUP

ITYM "$CREATEGROUP" ;-)

(FWIW, I'm applying this to my unofficial vdr package.)


> 2.- The postrm should remove this user/group combination if they exist.
> This is usually done as follows (for user, similar for group):

I suggest that this is NOT done *unless* /var/lib/vdr, /var/cache/vdr,
/etc/vdr and /var/lib/video and all of their contents are removed (i.e. on
purge).

And I'm not convinced that /var/lib/video should be removed: there are
third-party tools (vdrconvert, vdr2dvd.pl etc.) which can be used to access
the recordings.

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