Summary

Cannot delete a user using the Jira API if issues are assigned, reported, or have comments added by the users

How to Replicate

1. Assign issues to the user, have tickets created/reported by the user, or have tickets where the user added comments.
2. Try to delete the user using the Jira delete API(v2/v3)

Expected Result

The user should be deleted successfully

Actual Result

{"errorMessages":["Cannot delete user 'XXXXXXXX' because 170 issues were reported by this person.","Cannot delete user 'XXXXXXXX' because 3 issues are currently assigned to this person.","Cannot delete user 'XXXXXXXX' because they have made 23 comments."],"errors":{}}%   

Cannot delete user 'xxxxx' because x issues are currently assigned to this person.
Cannot delete user 'xxxxx' because they have made x comments.

Workaround

Delete the account from the admin UI