On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 03:49:08AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hey. > > The following probably doesn't qualify yet for a proper release goal > proposal (I haven't written a wikipage yet)... further as non-DD I'm > not sure how far I could actually coordinate that. > So take that rather as presenting and idea[0] and asking for > comments&feedback than a commitment to spend an FTE on it ;-) > > Nevertheless it may be found useful, so here it is for discussion: > > > I think there should be a "reserved" namespace for users and groups, > created by Debian packages. > Maybe even further namespaces for other use cases (e.g. 3rd party > packages).
This has been discussed various times over the years on debian-devel ([0] looks like the most recent). There's even an open bug[1] against debian-policy about it. There's been plenty of discussion, with a general concensus on _-prefixed names, but not much else. [0]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00187.html [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248809 Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
