Re: Bug#765499: Policy still thinks UIDs are 32-bit

2015-01-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Ben Harris writes: > Policy 9.2.2 lists ranges of UIDs and GIDs and what they're used for > in Debian. However, it limits itself to UIDs and GIDs below 65536. > As far as I can tell, on a modern Debian GNU/Linux i386 system UIDs > and GIDs are unsigned 32-bit integers. In consequence, Poli

Bug#765499: Policy still thinks UIDs are 32-bit

2014-10-15 Thread Ben Harris
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.6.0 Severity: minor I'm not sure if this is the correct route for a Debian user to raise policy issues -- please feel free to redirect me elsewhere. Policy 9.2.2 lists ranges of UIDs and GIDs and what they're used for in Debian. However, it limits itself t