On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ? > > Several :-( > > The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user > whose simple name is "foo"): > > * _foo > * foo > * debian-foo > * Debian-foo > * Dfoo > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248809> has been open > since 2004 and shows no signs of resolution. > > I think I slightly prefer _foo, which originated in *BSD. However, none > of the packages I maintain actually do that; they use Debian-foo or
This has the advantage of being short and downstreams not having lots of Debian-* users on their systems possibly confusing users not familiar with Debian. I'd be nice to standardize on this. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140826101939.gf1...@bogon.m.sigxcpu.org
