>>>>> 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.

The ids in uid-gid.txt (in data/api.git) need to be updated as well,
i.e. they should be kept for now but changed to historical.

Ulrich