❦ 24 octobre 2016 09:12 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> : >> The requirement to have this for dynamically allocated IDs also >> probably stems from the fact that the users created in postinst scripts >> should not conflict. But wouldn't it be far easier to just create a >> page on the Debian Wiki and track that there? [1] And have policy say >> to check that list to see that it's unique and add your package + user >> there when you are about to upload a new package? That way, in 99.9% of >> cases where users are required, and they don't conflict with existing >> ones, there's no additional work for people other than the package >> maintainer, and the package maintainer doesn't have to wait for a >> response before they are able to proceed. And if there really is a >> conflict, people can still post to -devel about it. > > I'd prefer if user creation was just done declaratively and then we > could scan the archive. If we have a manually-maintained list, it will > get out of sync with reality pretty quickly. dh-sysuser entered the archive recently. -- Terminate input by end-of-file or marker, not by count. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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