On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:03:55AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> > > wrote: > > > > I'm afraid this is backwards. If you want to go and hunt down packages > > > > that rely on those global static users and get their maintainers > > > > (preferably in Debian) to work on a migration to dynamically-allocated > > > > system users, perhaps after that it would be worth removing the global > > > > static users. Until then, they need to stay where they are. > > > > > > Seems like detecting broken packages from system changes would already be > > > part of the Ubuntu qual. process. > > > > It's always better to not break things in the first place. > > Sometimes breaking things is necessary for forward progress.
Certainly, in general. This isn't one of those times. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
