On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 08:58:49AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > 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. Probably best to continue this discussion in #841877. -- Sean Whitton
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