Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > 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 Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
