Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > As Simon said, EF00-FFEF = 61184-65519 covers more than just netplan > (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/base-passwd/blob/master/README), and > several of the IDs allocated there in the vaguely recent past are hard > to change (their rationales included "needs to be the same across > multiple machines"), so I don't think we can use the existing systemd > range - it needs to be adjusted for Debian at least to some extent. I'm > not prepared to cede all of 64000-64999 to systemd; perhaps it would > have been better if base-passwd had started at 60000 instead, but we're > here now.
Oh, whoops, I misread and didn't double-check. Yes, we definitely don't want to stomp on the 64000 range that we've been using for forever. Apologies for the confusion. > The rate of static allocations in 60000-64999 is low enough that I'm not > concerned in principle about carving off a slice of it for dynamic > allocations by systemd-sysusers, and in any case I wasn't expecting to > ever need to allocate more static IDs under 64000 (netplan was before my > time). Perhaps we could start by reserving 61184-63433, given the > netplan allocation? Yes, it's a bit arbitrary, but also not really all > that stingy, and base-passwd's allocations are meant to be permanent > even if the package has been removed (since we can never guarantee that > it's been removed from users' systems). This sounds good to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
