[gentoo-dev-announce] New acct-* package policy

[gentoo-dev-announce] New acct-* package policy

[Michał Górny]

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Hello, everyone.

The Council has approved removing policy part from GLEP 81 [1] which
enabled QA to establish a new easier policy for acct-* packages [2].

The most important change is that the requirement of gentoo-dev RFC is
removed.  Instead, developers just take the next free UID/GID in range
499..101 and commit the packages at will.  The policy recommends going
downwards from 499, and taking the same number for matching user/group
(even if it would mean leaving gaps in assignments).

Please commit and push uid-gid.txt [3] change to data/api.git *before*
your packages.  This makes sure that any potential collisions are caught
as merge conflicts before they hit users.  The CI also catches UID/GID
collisions.

I hope this will make migrating packages to the new system much easier. 
Thanks to all the people participating in the effort.


[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#GLEP_81_.28acct-.2A.29_package_policy
[3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/uid-gid.txt

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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