Bug#248809: policy needed for user names Debian name space
On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:18:52 +0200, Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
wrote:
>Since a proposed standard for user name spaces already exists at
><http://cr.yp.to/unixaccount.html> which does not involve long names
>(but capitalized names instead), I think that Debian policy should
>include this topic, and assess that Debian-specific user names should
>begin or end with a capital D, be unique in their first eight
>characters, and not be longer than, say, ten characters.
Just for the record, I think that chosing a single letter "D" has way
too much conflict potential.
A more detailed analysis can be found in my answer to #248481.
My proposition would be to adopt one of the examples given by the
existing Debian packages tor, mixminion, sks, exim4 and console-log,
using Debian-${PACKAGE}, or (maybe preferably) ${PACKAGE}-Debian, and
of course to fix our tools to display an account name in its entirety
or (maybe preferable) to offer a configuration option allowing the
user to choose whether she wants to see a neatly aligned table or full
information.
Greetings
Marc
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