Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop 30000-59999 uid/gid reservation
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > We have reserved the 30000-59999 uid/gid range for ages, but never used
> > it and observing the current rate of growth I don't think it makes sense
> > to keep them reserved: Debian will not use that range in the next
> > century, while large systems definitely can use the extra room.
>
> Well, I have a package that really needs a minumum of 100 but ideally
> 1000 semi-static uids of its own (the block should be contiguous; must
> have _no_ user in the password file for at least a large percentage of
> them; don't ask), but I have not dared to bring it up on policy. I've
> been using the low end of the big block (31000-32000) for now, since
> occupying anywhere in 1000-29999 seems chancy at best.
>
> > Also, we should add a reservation for 2^64-1 for systems with 64 bit
> > uid/gids.
>
> Agreed.
>
i second Wichers original suggestion.
Joey, your package seems to be rather esoteric and could use ids
from all over the place. It seems sensible to recycle the whole
lot for the greater good.
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