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Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?



On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > unpredictable or non-deterministic allocation of such ids is a cause of non-
> > reproducibiliy for Debian images and installations, so us reproducible folks
> > would like to see "sensible" to be expanded to take reproducible builds into
> > account.
> So we should go (in Policy) more towards "dynamic global UIDs and GIDs
> which may post additional load towards the base-passwd maintainers?

I guess so, yes. :/

> Or would it be enough for reproducible images if adduser would finally
> implement #243929, making it possible to pre-determine UIDs before an
> image is built?

for reproducible images it would be 'enough' but I believe this would also shift
the burden of the work to each and every image designer, so in a way this feels
like a workaround with the main purpose of removing load from base-passwd
maintenance while putting load on everyone else forever :/

Roland Clobus has put a lot of work & thoughts into reproducible images, so I've
added him to cc: now, so he can comment on this aspect of #1006912.


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