Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-06-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:03:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > > This make four seconds so far, so the proposal is accepted. > > > Proposed by Santiago Vila > > Seconded: Russ Allbery > > Seconded: Luk Claes > > Seconded: Raphael Hertzog

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > This make four seconds so far, so the proposal is accepted. > Proposed by Santiago Vila > Seconded: Russ Allbery > Seconded: Luk Claes > Seconded: Raphael Hertzog > Seconded: Steve Langasek > I have created a branch bug582495-ballom

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-06-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Known affected packages: adduser, base-files > > > Fix: Trivial: s/2/5/ > > > > I'm looking for seconds for

Re: Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Does anyone think there's a need for another reserved ID range somewhere > above 16 bits to replace this one? Well, we could just reserve the upper half of the 32 bit space (and document 2^32-2 as (NFS) nobody and 2^32-1 as don't us

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/21/2010 08:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Santiago Vila writes: > >> Alternatively, we could try to improve the current status a little bit >> for squeeze. > >> (A system admin with about 45000 users in his system asked me about >> the new /etc/profile and the apparently arbitrary limit of 2

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Santiago Vila wrote: >>> Known affected packages: adduser, base-files >>> Fix: Trivial: s/2/5/ >>> I'm looking for seconds for this proposal. >> Seconded. > Seconded. > Do

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Known affected packages: adduser, base-files > > Fix: Trivial: s/2/5/ > > I'm looking for seconds for this proposal. > Seconded. Seconded. Does anyone think there's a need fo

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Bill Allombert
merge 161912 582495 quit On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hmm, I see this is already reported as Bug#161912. > > However, this report includes a patch :-) > > Feel free to merge them anyway. Done. Cheers, -- Bill. Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNS

Processed: Re: Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > merge 161912 582495 Bug#161912: Drop 3-5 uid/gid reservation Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts Merged 161912 582495. > quit Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 582495

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Santiago Vila wrote: > Known affected packages: adduser, base-files > Fix: Trivial: s/2/5/ > > I'm looking for seconds for this proposal. Seconded. Cheers, -- Raphaƫl Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Santiago Vila writes: > Alternatively, we could try to improve the current status a little bit > for squeeze. > (A system admin with about 45000 users in his system asked me about > the new /etc/profile and the apparently arbitrary limit of 2). > The block 3-5 is reserved *by us*, s

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Hmm, I see this is already reported as Bug#161912. However, this report includes a patch :-) Feel free to merge them anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

2010-05-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roger Leigh wrote: > On 20/05/2010 20:43, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't think it's practical to ever get rid of the legacy UID range > > fragmentation in the 16-bit space. Better would be to plan a transition to