Package: debian-policy Version: web page 1999-8-25 Debian allows static user ids. This is not a good idea. the code necessary to use static id's is pretty small (several versions on debian-devel 1999-8-25), so every daemon should do so. this way its easy to use a package on a non-debian linux where user id's might be different, and also helps a lot with nfs.
there is a rumor, that lsb (linux standard base) will propose this. andreas
