On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:54:17PM +0100, Teddy Hogeborn wrote: > Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes: > > You might find that coming up with a concrete proposal for policy > > might help there. > I have the feeling that all that would happen is that maybe someone > would ask the maintainers for the affected packages what *they* think, > and hold off on any policy change until the packages are changed. But > it would be easy to write a specific change proposal, so I'll do that > once someone actually needs one. It might be helpful to have everything ready to be changed in one fell swoop in order to avoid skew between policy and reality and to ensure that everyone is up to speed prior to the change. > > That would probably help too. A patch implementing support for the > > new GID range you want to add might also be helpful. > Support? You mean something like "adduser --system-shared"? That's a > bit more than I am asking for; I just wanted to have the range > *available* as a general policy, not necessarily have a nice UI to it. It might help convince people to accept such a change if there were a user interface for using it. > > What I want is for any change in the default handling of UID and GID > > ranges in NIS to be made in other parts of Debian too. > Fair enough, but what parts other than "adduser" are there? (And > don't say "debian-policy", please.) Off the top of my head there are some other implementations of adduser around. > > It is very easy for people who want this behaviour to change their > > local configuration suitably. Doing it in NIS alone will at best > > provide a small part of what you are asking for > (Actually, it would solve all my problems. This change is the only > one I need to apply to use this GID range the way I want.) Well, yes. It would take slightly more to make it a useful feature in Debian, though. > Would you be OK with making this change if the "adduser" package was > changed too? (Of course, after both packages are changed, the Debian I would probably go along with the adduser maintainers on this one. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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