From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 220AA15800A for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F026E08D6; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46862E08CD for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:39:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: Mike Gilbert Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* packages In-Reply-To: (Mike Gilbert's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:07:53 -0400") References: <9626e2f9-5f57-e061-b3ba-1c1fa95cb868@gentoo.org> <87sf9m9ta5.fsf@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:39:20 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e42eeff5-8c95-4655-98c0-b929f25a846b X-Archives-Hash: 8663c51a7bfe05b60a9622b123148774 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27=E2=80=AFPM Sam James wrote: >> > Haven't we been keeping these because we still need to decide on a >> > policy about what to do with dead acct-*/* packages? >>=20 >> 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFDBAEBCAAtFiEEtDnZ1O9xIP68rzDbUYgzUIhBXi4FAmS2M5gPHHVsbUBnZW50 b28ub3JnAAoJEFGIM1CIQV4uwXEIAJueJ/4ZatyPKC/h1UaggfBGtUPulXJKVXe0 yTXxDLntEFHjAlhpUpGek8WQwbvhMxrt/QhJ/CYY0erPE2uIn5TzJzdrB7e2gPJM 3m9nlC8yzy1TcnQcYuqqDp6vzbBPWrA8WrYuzg6YuOc7jYbj/kghcyl9chdOU8Fm lQs3zhaMIASxazeBa867OgoKcBcwZ/ghyiugKaQH7Gu/vHGfxmYHlTA/Mtf0jDOM gu2mqXiAHQDSM/yiQCr5EXt0IwHhqKNP7GE4v5pvX7sfAc+aouD6sSaujqbAoDI9 ZGlZ+d6anIv71PEzzO5qC6Fr3k2dhqE0Ts6U0m6sTtqrSO1onKs= =MFef -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--