Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El jue, 01-01-1970 a las 00:00 +0000, Ulrich Mueller escribió:
> > > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > Haven't we been keeping these because we still need to decide
> > > > on a
> > > > policy about what to do with dead acct-*/* packages?
> > > 
> > > Right. https://bugs.gentoo.org/781881 is still open. Flow could
> > > ping
> > > the QA team and ask if it should be closed, given the opinion
> > > there
> > > seems to be that there's no need to keep them, but I think it's
> > > wrong
> > > to do this pre-empting a policy decision, given it essentially
> > > forces
> > > the "don't keep them" path.
> 
> > The bug has been open for several months without comment. If a
> > policy
> > were going to materialize, I think it would have happened by now.
> 
> > Forcing the issue by sending this last rites notice seems
> > acceptable
> > to me.
> 
> I'd say we remove the packages, because system user and group ids are
> a somewhat scarce resource.

I agree because of the same reasons 


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