Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The question is:
> 
>  Do I leave this as it is,
>  or do I create the jazip group in the package installation?
> 
> Policy says that I should create a Dynamically allocated system
> group (range 100-999) using adduser --system after checking with
> the base system maintainer (that would be base-passwd?) and
> debian-devel.
> 
> If I do this, I don't really need the user ID, but only the group.
> Can I use addgroup instead?

This is a very good question.  I think its a bug in policy that there
is no procedure identified for the creation of groups by packages...

In this case I might suggest that you just re-use the floppy group,
however.

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