Bug#841877: Don't recommend contacting base-passwd maintainer for dynamic UIDs

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 patch

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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.

I (obviously) agree.  How about this patch?  I'm seeking seconds for
this proposal.

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 9cd182b..ab4f736 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9610,9 +9610,7 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
 	  that a dynamically allocated id can be used.  In this case
 	  you should choose an appropriate user or group name,
 	  discussing this on <prgn>debian-devel</prgn> and checking
-	  with the <package/base-passwd/ maintainer that it is unique and that
-	  they do not wish you to use a statically allocated id
-	  instead.  When this has been checked you must arrange for
+	  that it is unique.  When this has been checked you must arrange for
 	  your package to create the user or group if necessary using
 	  <prgn>adduser</prgn> in the <prgn>preinst</prgn> or
 	  <prgn>postinst</prgn> script (again, the latter is to be

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]