Bug#391717: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Stepen and *, Am 2006-10-08 17:11:06, schrieb Stephen Gran: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: Such gender field may have three values (male, female or undefined). I think that this opens a whole set of issues that have previously been happily ignored; you are creating

Bug#391717: RV: Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-09 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Him Dunno why I haven't received back the copy for my message sent to the list or in the bug report. I'm resending it just in case. Greetings, Miry --- Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi, I think it's a great idea to find a way to use gender in i18n. I think it makes the system

Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Millan
Package: adduser Version: 3.97 Severity: wishlist Hi! Would it be possible to extend the 5th field of /etc/passwd to include gender information? This is very useful for localised programs in languages that make gender distinction. For example in Catalan, many sentences are constructed

Bug#391717: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: What do you think? I think that this is not within adduser's domain and should be cleared with the maintainers of the underlying low level tools. adduser doesn't care about the GECOS field at all, even the questions asked during

Bug#391717: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:24:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:13:31PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Would it be possible to extend the 5th field of /etc/passwd to include gender information? This is very useful for localised programs in languages that make gender

Bug#391717: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Millan
reassign 391717 passwd thanks On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:31:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: What do you think? I think that this is not within adduser's domain and should be cleared with the maintainers of the underlying low

Bug#391717: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: I'm not sure what's the best way to proceed (if I was, I'd already send a patch). I was hoping we could find a way to extend and/or abuse the GECOS in a back-wards compatible manner. Such gender field may have three values (male, female or

Bug#391717: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:11:06PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: I'm not sure what's the best way to proceed (if I was, I'd already send a patch). I was hoping we could find a way to extend and/or abuse the GECOS in a back-wards compatible

Bug#391717: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:44, Christian Perrier wrote: passwd maintainers, what do you think about this? The idea would be to add a gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and rationale. http://bugs.debian.org/391717 I personnally dislike the idea (why

Bug#391717: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): reassign 391717 passwd thanks On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:31:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: What do you think? I think that this is not within adduser's domain and should be

Bug#391717: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 02:11:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:44, Christian Perrier wrote: passwd maintainers, what do you think about this? The idea would be to add a gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and rationale.