Debian Bug report logs - #470847
vde2: Removal Message

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: William Lynch <wlynch@UDel.Edu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: vde2: Removal Message

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:24:28 -0400

Package: vde2
Version: 2.2.0-pre2-1
Severity: normal

I installed kvm, which required this package, and then I actually
uninstalled it. However, this is the message that I receive when I
attempt to remove (and purge) vde2. (with a few lines removed)

wlynch@htpc:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vde2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  vde2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Removing vde2 ...
Purging configuration files for vde2 ...
WARNING: You are just about to delete the root account (uid 0)
Usually this is never required as it may render the whole system unusable
Press immediately Ctrl+C if you want to abort
Ok, you really want it, I'll delete that account


The fact that it says that it's removing the root account, which it
doesn't, and that it only gives about 1 second to hit ctrl+c seems to be
a horrible setup. Please document what you're actually removing (if I
need to know that), don't say that you're removing root, and if you
actually want to give the user a chance to stop the uninstall, please
use something that actually waits for a response.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vde2 depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.106        add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.7-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpcap0.8                  0.9.8-2      System interface for user-level pa
ii  libvdemgmt0                 2.2.0-pre2-1 Virtual Distributed Ethernet - Man
ii  libvdeplug2                 2.2.0-pre2-1 Virtual Distributed Ethernet - Plu

Versions of packages vde2 recommends:
ii  daemon                        0.6.3-1    turns other processes into daemons

Message #10 received at 470847@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org>

To: William Lynch <wlynch@UDel.Edu>, 470847@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#470847: vde2: Removal Message

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:50:46 +0100

reassing 470847 adduser
merge 470847 469165
thanks

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:24:28PM -0400, William Lynch wrote:
> Package: vde2
> Version: 2.2.0-pre2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I installed kvm, which required this package, and then I actually
> uninstalled it. However, this is the message that I receive when I
> attempt to remove (and purge) vde2. (with a few lines removed)
> 
> wlynch@htpc:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vde2
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   vde2*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
> Removing vde2 ...
> Purging configuration files for vde2 ...
> WARNING: You are just about to delete the root account (uid 0)
> Usually this is never required as it may render the whole system unusable
> Press immediately Ctrl+C if you want to abort
> Ok, you really want it, I'll delete that account

this looks like #469165, thus I'm reassining and merging

thanks for your report,
filippo
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Message #21 received at 470847-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 470847-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#470847: fixed in adduser 3.107

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:17:03 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.107

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

adduser_3.107.dsc
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.107.dsc
adduser_3.107.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.107.tar.gz
adduser_3.107_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.107_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 470847@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> (supplier of updated adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:43:30 +0000
Source: adduser
Binary: adduser
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.107
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
Description: 
 adduser    - add and remove users and groups
Closes: 469165 470464 470847 471705 471903 472349
Changes: 
 adduser (3.107) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joerg Hoh ]
   * deluser: fix really annoying message about removing root account when removing
     just a simple user. (Closes: #469165, #470464, #470847, #471705, #472349)
 .
   [ Stephen Gran ]
   * Translations:
     - eu (thanks Piarres Beobide <pi@beobide.net>)(closes: #471903)
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 85f472ae5cedaea852c487ce7f6bd1e3 264145 admin important adduser_3.107.tar.gz
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