On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:17:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Section 3.2 should not allow static user ids (except root=0) (#43483) > * Stalled for 2 weeks. > * Proposed by Andreas Jellinghaus. > * Policy currently allows for static uid' to be hardcoded into > daemons. The proposal is to change that so only dynamic uid's may > be used. I think the practice of using static IDs should be deprecated (and packages doing it should get lintian warnings..) I disagree with banning them outright as it doesn't really give packages a chance to get fixed before they have bugs filed against them. If Andreas is agreeable, I'm willing to second the proposal. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * dark has changed the topic on channel #debian to: Later tonight: After months of careful refrigeration, Debian 2.0 is finally cool enough to release.
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