Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 03:03:34PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sat 12 Mar 2022 at 03:01PM +01, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:00:44PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> Roland Clobus has put a lot of work & thoughts into reproducible images, > >> so I've > >> added him to cc:

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 12 Mar 2022 at 03:01PM +01, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:00:44PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Roland Clobus has put a lot of work & thoughts into reproducible images, so >> I've >> added him to cc: now, so he can comment on this aspect of #1006912. > > Policy

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-12 Thread Roland Clobus
On 12/03/2022 14:00, Holger Levsen wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Or would it be enough for reproducible images if adduser would finally implement #243929, making it possible to pre-determine UIDs before an image is built? for reproducible images it would

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:00:44PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Roland Clobus has put a lot of work & thoughts into reproducible images, so > I've > added him to cc: now, so he can comment on this aspect of #1006912. Policy editors, I think we can now choose between taking care of the needs of

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-12 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > unpredictable or non-deterministic allocation of such ids is a cause of non- > > reproducibiliy for Debian images and installations, so us reproducible folks > > would like to see "sensible" to be expanded to take reproducible builds

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:58:31AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 08:15:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > This is my patch. > > I like your patch. :) I just have one comment: > > > +``Dynamic local`` allocated ids should by default be arranged in some > > +sensible order,

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marc, On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 08:15:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > This is my patch. I like your patch. :) I just have one comment: > +``Dynamic local`` allocated ids should by default be arranged in some > +sensible order, but the behavior should be configurable. unpredictable or

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:01:00PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Please go ahead and write a patch. The Policy Editors are happy to > review and edit proposed wording but we can't be responsible for > producing all of the text that gets added to Policy. This is my patch. I took care to not

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 11:07:54PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Previous, still open, bug from 2004: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228692 thanks for pointing this out. I have made some notes (both for adduser and for policy) from that bug. Adduser development has

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
Previous, still open, bug from 2004: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228692 -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Marc, On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 07:40am +01, Marc Haber wrote: > How about putting advice like this in policy: > > Suggestion 1: > Create a dedicated chapter (which would ideally be placed between the > current chapters 9.2.1. Introduction and 9.2.2. UID and GID classes) > named "dynamically

Bug#1006912: is it time to have account deletion in policy?

2022-03-07 Thread Marc Haber
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.6.0.1 Severity: wishlist Hi! Currently, Policy does contain guidelines about system accounts being created on package installation. It is, however, more reluctant to give advice about accout deletion on package uninstall and/or purge. In Addition, the existing