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Bug#174927: debian-policy: reference to "base system maintainer"



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.8.0
Severity: minor

11.9 ("Permissions and owners") says:

     On the other hand, the program might be able to determine the uid or
     gid from the user or group name at runtime, so that a dynamically
     allocated id can be used.  In this case you should choose an
     appropriate user or group name, discussing this on `debian-devel' and
     checking with the base system maintainer that it is unique and that
     they do not wish you to use a statically allocated id instead.

I think it would be consistent with the rest of policy to say
"base-passwd maintainer" instead, since that person is the one assigned
to allocate static ids.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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