Bug#841877: Don't recommend contacting base-passwd maintainer for dynamic UIDs
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
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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