# Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> (2023-07-17)
# Obsolete acct-* packages which became leaf packages.
# Removal on 2023-08-17.
acct-user/artifactory
acct-group/artifactory
acct-user/cinder
acct-group/cinder
acct-user/glance
acct-group/glance
acct-user/heat
acct-group/heat
acct-user/keystone
acct-group/keystone
acct-user/litecoin
acct-group/litecoin
acct-user/logcheck
acct-group/logcheck
acct-user/minbif
acct-group/minbif
acct-user/minio
acct-group/minio
acct-user/netbox
acct-group/netbox
acct-user/neutron
acct-group/neutron
acct-user/nova
acct-group/nova
acct-user/placement
acct-group/placement
acct-user/quagga
acct-group/quagga
acct-user/rplayd
acct-group/rplayd
acct-user/rstudio-server
acct-group/rstudio-server
acct-user/rundeck
acct-group/rundeck
acct-user/sguil
acct-group/sguil
acct-user/sigh
acct-group/sigh
acct-user/smokeping
acct-group/smokeping
acct-user/sobby
acct-group/sobby
acct-user/spread
acct-group/spread
acct-user/stg
acct-group/stg
acct-user/swift
acct-group/swift
acct-user/thttpd
acct-group/thttpd
acct-group/gpio
acct-group/simplevirt
acct-group/spi
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:43 PM Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:
# Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> (2023-07-17)
# Obsolete acct-* packages which became leaf packages.
# Removal on 2023-08-17.
acct-user/artifactory
acct-group/artifactory
acct-user/cinder
acct-group/cinder
acct-user/glance
acct-group/glance
acct-user/heat
acct-group/heat
acct-user/keystone
acct-group/keystone
acct-user/litecoin
acct-group/litecoin
acct-user/logcheck
acct-group/logcheck
acct-user/minbif
acct-group/minbif
acct-user/minio
acct-group/minio
acct-user/netbox
acct-group/netbox
acct-user/neutron
acct-group/neutron
acct-user/nova
acct-group/nova
acct-user/placement
acct-group/placement
acct-user/quagga
acct-group/quagga
acct-user/rplayd
acct-group/rplayd
acct-user/rstudio-server
acct-group/rstudio-server
acct-user/rundeck
acct-group/rundeck
acct-user/sguil
acct-group/sguil
acct-user/sigh
acct-group/sigh
acct-user/smokeping
acct-group/smokeping
acct-user/sobby
acct-group/sobby
acct-user/spread
acct-group/spread
acct-user/stg
acct-group/stg
acct-user/swift
acct-group/swift
acct-user/thttpd
acct-group/thttpd
acct-group/gpio
acct-group/simplevirt
acct-group/spi
Haven't we been keeping these because we still need to decide on a
policy about what to do with dead acct-*/* packages?
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.
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@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.
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@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.
On 18/07/2023 10.42, Зураб Квачадзе wrote:
How do we handle this case, then.
Imagine we have a leaf package acct-user/foo, which has a reserved UID
of 123. It gets last rited and its entry is removed from uid-gid.txt.
Nobody is proposing that the uid-gid.txt entry is removed. Ideally, it
would be marked as 'historical', together with the date it went historical.
After a while appears a new package acct-user/bar, which takes the 123acct-user/bar with the same UID is installed?
UID. Then a user, say Bob, updates their system, which haven't been
updated for some time. What if they still have acct-user/foo, when >
If a UID/GID is in use, then acct-*.eclass will find the next suitable
ID (unless, e.g. ACCT_USER_ENFORCE_ID is set, we is usually not the case).
- Flow
El jue, 01-01-1970 a las 00:00 +0000, Ulrich Mueller escribió:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@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.
I agree because of the same reasons
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 11:22 Pacho Ramos <<a href="mailto:pacho@gentoo.org">pacho@gentoo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">El jue, 01-01-1970 a las 00:00 +0000, Ulrich Mueller escribió:<br>
How do we handle this case, then.
Imagine we have a leaf package acct-user/foo, which has a reserved UID of 123.
It gets last rited and its entry is removed from uid-gid.txt. After a while appears a new package acct-user/bar, which takes the 123 UID. Then a user, say
Bob, updates their system, which haven't been updated for some time. What if they still have acct-user/foo, when acct-user/bar with the same UID is installed? Should we even care about such cases?
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@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.
[[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> writes:
[[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
On 18/07/2023 11.56, Sam James wrote:
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> writes:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:Pinging someone rather than "forcing the issue" as a first-step is
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.
customary.
I am sorry, but it seems that I have to clarify something.
First, I have "pinged someone."
Ping on IRC (in #gentoo-qa, or could PM me), or again on the bug?
Someone asked the QA team to make a decision. We haven't yet, as I'd
forgot about it. It seems wrong to then just pretend that didn't happen.
At least try to get it resolved on that end by pinging again / asking us?
[[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
On 18/07/2023 11.56, Sam James wrote:
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> writes:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:customary.
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. >> Pinging someone rather than "forcing the issue" as a first-step is
I am sorry, but it seems that I have to clarify something.
First, I have "pinged someone."
As of writing this, I was the last to comment on the QA bug about five
months ago, asking why we would want to keep unused acct-* packages
[1]. Since then, this has not been answered, and there have been zero
other replies. That signaled me that there was no interest in pursuing
the matter further. In addition, we have already removed acct-*
packages in the past.
Secondly, nobody immediately forces anything.
Sam, I am afraid, but I believe that the situation is different from
how you frame it.
The proponents of keeping obsolete acct-* packages have the inventive
to establish their preferred policy.
Accusing me of not facilitating a QA bug that deals with establishing
a policy I do not favor seems unfair.
Do you think that a QA bug that has not seen progress in nearly five
months should be able to establish an illegitimate shadow policy?
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