On 18-07-2023 11:42:39 +0300, Зураб Квачадзе wrote:
> How do we handle this case, then.
> Imagine we have a leaf package acct-user/foo, which has a reserved UID of 123.
> It gets last rited and its entry is removed from uid-gid.txt. After a while
> appears a new package acct-user/bar, which takes the 123 UID. Then a user, say
> Bob, updates their system, which haven't been updated for some time. What if
> they still have acct-user/foo, when acct-user/bar with the same UID is
> installed? Should we even care about such cases?

IMO we should, thus 123 should not be removed from uid-gid.txt, and instead
be marked as reserved or something with a date.

Thanks,
Fabian

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Fabian Groffen
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