dapper -> hardy upgrade with purge removes ntp user

[Adam Conrad]

Binary package hint: ntp

When upgrading from dapper to hardy, the old "ntp-simple" (and similar) packages get removed. Should one also purge these packages (as I often do, since I don't like having "config cruft" lying around forever), the ntp user is removed. The ntp user can be brought back by re-installing "ntp" after one purges the old packages, but that's less than intuitive.

Ideally, rather than dropping the old packages wholesale, since their maintainer scripts currently contain code to remove the ntp user, they should be replaced with empty packages that have no such maintainer scripts, then dropped entirely after the Hardy LTS release.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the bug report.

Regards
chuck

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
I know this bug is from long ago, but I'm cleaning up old ntp bugs to really understand what is left open.

Adam please feel free to correct me, but we have useradd/remove only in ntp.postinst/ntp.postrm since a long time. I see no reason to keep the bug open and therefore mark it Fix Released (I guess that is the most applicable status).