Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 7/9] acct-group/ftp: Add 'ftp' group (GID 21)

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 23:09 -0400, desultory wrote:
> On 06/05/19 05:12, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
> > ---
> >  acct-group/ftp/ftp-0.ebuild | 8 ++++++++
> >  acct-group/ftp/metadata.xml | 5 +++++
> >  profiles/categories         | 1 +
> >  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 acct-group/ftp/ftp-0.ebuild
> >  create mode 100644 acct-group/ftp/metadata.xml
> > 
> > diff --git a/acct-group/ftp/ftp-0.ebuild b/acct-group/ftp/ftp-0.ebuild
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..d0912739a2fe
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/acct-group/ftp/ftp-0.ebuild
> > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> > +# Copyright 2019 Gentoo Authors
> > +# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> > +
> > +EAPI=7
> > +
> > +inherit acct-group
> > +
> > +ACCT_GROUP_ID=21
> > diff --git a/acct-group/ftp/metadata.xml b/acct-group/ftp/metadata.xml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..7a38bb900964
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/acct-group/ftp/metadata.xml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> > +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
> > +<pkgmetadata>
> > +	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
> > +</pkgmetadata>
> As apparently needs explicitly stated: this is merely feedback on a
> technical matter, not a personal attack; nor is it meant to be passive
> aggressive, despite requesting clarification of a technical point.
> 
> It seems wrong to add packages to gentoo.git as maintainer-needed in
> general, not least given the noise that would either need to be ignored
> or special cased out from the QA relevant reports. [...]

This is because this user is effectively split from ftpbase which is
maintainer-needed.  Normally users will have maintainers.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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