Re: Keysafe dynamic UID

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:57:23PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I am packaging Keysafe,[1] and the binary package keysafe-server needs
> to create a new system user with a dynamically allocated UID.
> 
> I am using the username 'keysafe'.  I do not anticipate any collision
> with any other package, but policy says I should e-mail you to confirm
> that.

Policy should probably only suggest emailing the base-passwd maintainer
in the case where you need a statically-allocated ID (I'm not
necessarily in a good position to judge uniqueness of
dynamically-allocated IDs across the whole archive, and the chances of
me requesting that you use a statically-allocated ID rather than the
other way round are vanishingly small).

In any case, I have no issues with this request.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]