Re: [gentoo-dev] New acct-* package policy

[Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:36:53AM +0100, Martin Dummer wrote:
> Am 21.12.19 um 18:32 schrieb Michał Górny:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> One remark from a "proxy-maintainer" view:
> 
> A proxy-maintainer (like me) cannot commit or add github pull requests for 
> 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/uid-gid.tx
> 
> and therefore cannot allocate a valid UID/GID for valid new ebuilds in
> pull requests.
> 
> So for proxy-maintained packages which need acct-user/acct-group ebuilds
> this must be
> 
> - either done like before - announcement on the gentoo-dev ML, then
> committed by ???
> 
> - or done by a member of the proxy-maintainers group.
> 
> 
> Maybe you find the time to refine that exception in the documentation.
> 
> 
> Bye
> 
> Martin

https://github.com/gentoo/api-gentoo-org/pulls

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Cheers,
Aaron

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