RE: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
I would urge some caution here. If I were to guess at a reason as to why
bin has uid/gid of 1, I would suspect that some application
installations use 1 as the bin uid/gid instead of looking it up. This
may not be good practices, but the LSB work is primarily focused on
codifying current practices, good or not.
Before this is deprecated, it would probably help to look in
distributions of various application packages and/or ask the
creators/maintainers of those packages to check for an assumption that
bin will have uid/gid equal to 1. And, since we all make mistakes, I'd
suggest changing the bin uid/gid on a system in a distribution or two,
install the most commonly used applications, and see if they execute
properly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wichert Akkerman [mailto:wichert@wiggy.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:59 AM
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core
support package
Previously Stuart Anderson wrote:
> I think part of the reason for having added this was that this was an
area
> where divergence was beginning to occur, and those participating at
the time
> felt that we should specify the common practice to prevent further
divergence.
I don't think divergence is a good reason for putting them into LSB:
if we don't spec those users at all it doesn't matter if they diverge
since people can't use them without violating the LSB, but more
interestingly it will also allow us to remove them completely.
> Unfortunately, we can't just remove it. It has been published as part
> of the standard. What we can do, however, is to mark that portion as
> "deprecated" and remove it in a future release.
What I plan to do for Debian is not install those users on new installs
but keep them around on existing systems. This will be done after the
woody release though so it won't affect anyone for the current
forseeable future.
Wichert.
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