reassign 329701 adduser thanks Maintainers of adduser, please review the log of bug #329701 and comment. Thank you.
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It might be helpful to have everything ready to be changed in one > fell swoop in order to avoid skew between policy and reality and to > ensure that everyone is up to speed prior to the change. All right, sounds good. After I've gotten the OK from all involved maintainers, I'll start with that. > > Support? You mean something like "adduser --system-shared"? > > It might help convince people to accept such a change if there were > a user interface for using it. Right. If the adduser maintainers are agreeable to the idea I'll look into it. > > Fair enough, but what parts other than "adduser" are there? > > Off the top of my head there are some other implementations of > adduser around. Hmm, in what packages? The only one I can find is "adduser-ng" which does not seem to know *anything* about any ranges, it simply calls "useradd" and "groupadd". Since it it already range-ignorant, it does not need to be changed. (Maintainers of adduser, do you know of any more?) > > Would you be OK with making this change if the "adduser" package > > was changed too? (Of course, after both packages are changed, the > > Debian > > I would probably go along with the adduser maintainers on this one. Thank you. Allright then. /Teddy
