>>>>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > Haven't we been keeping these because we still need to decide on a >> > policy about what to do with dead acct-*/* packages? >> >> Right. https://bugs.gentoo.org/781881 is still open. Flow could ping >> the QA team and ask if it should be closed, given the opinion there >> seems to be that there's no need to keep them, but I think it's wrong >> to do this pre-empting a policy decision, given it essentially forces >> the "don't keep them" path.
> The bug has been open for several months without comment. If a policy > were going to materialize, I think it would have happened by now. > Forcing the issue by sending this last rites notice seems acceptable > to me. I'd say we remove the packages, because system user and group ids are a somewhat scarce resource. The ids in uid-gid.txt (in data/api.git) need to be updated as well, i.e. they should be kept for now but changed to historical. Ulrich
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