Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8.0 Severity: wishlist Policy section "Permissions and owners" probably shouldn't recommend contacting the base-passwd maintainer when selecting a username for a dynamically-allocated UID created by a postinst maintscript. It should continue to recommend contacting the base-passwd maintainer when the postinst script needs to create a static UID. The current base-passwd maintainer explains the reasoning for this suggested change: ----- Forwarded message from Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> ----- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:42:55 +0100 From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Keysafe dynamic UID User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Message-ID: <20161023224255.GH14638@riva.ucam.org> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:57:23PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I am packaging Keysafe,[1] and the binary package keysafe-server needs > to create a new system user with a dynamically allocated UID. > > I am using the username 'keysafe'. I do not anticipate any collision > with any other package, but policy says I should e-mail you to confirm > that. Policy should probably only suggest emailing the base-passwd maintainer in the case where you need a statically-allocated ID (I'm not necessarily in a good position to judge uniqueness of dynamically-allocated IDs across the whole archive, and the chances of me requesting that you use a statically-allocated ID rather than the other way round are vanishingly small). In any case, I have no issues with this request. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Sean Whitton
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