Re: release goal idea: "namespace" for users and groups
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 03:49:08AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey.
>
> The following probably doesn't qualify yet for a proper release goal
> proposal (I haven't written a wikipage yet)... further as non-DD I'm
> not sure how far I could actually coordinate that.
> So take that rather as presenting and idea[0] and asking for
> comments&feedback than a commitment to spend an FTE on it ;-)
>
> Nevertheless it may be found useful, so here it is for discussion:
>
>
> I think there should be a "reserved" namespace for users and groups,
> created by Debian packages.
> Maybe even further namespaces for other use cases (e.g. 3rd party
> packages).
This has been discussed various times over the years on debian-devel
([0] looks like the most recent). There's even an open bug[1] against
debian-policy about it. There's been plenty of discussion, with a
general concensus on _-prefixed names, but not much else.
[0]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00187.html
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248809
Cheers,
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James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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