• [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: obsolete acct-* pack

    From Matt Turner@21:1/5 to flow@gentoo.org on Mon Jul 17 22:30:01 2023
    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?

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  • From Sam James@21:1/5 to Matt Turner on Mon Jul 17 22:30:01 2023
    Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> writes:

    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?

    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.



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  • From Mike Gilbert@21:1/5 to sam@gentoo.org on Mon Jul 17 23:10:01 2023
    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.

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  • From Ulrich Mueller@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 18 08:40:01 2023
    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.

    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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  • From Pacho Ramos@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 18 10:30:01 2023
    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


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  • From =?UTF-8?B?0JfRg9GA0LDQsSDQmtCy0LDRh@21:1/5 to flow@gentoo.org on Tue Jul 18 11:00:01 2023
    Well, this configuration is reasonable, I am for the change

    On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 11:55 Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> wrote:

    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 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?

    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


    <div dir="auto">Well, this configuration is reasonable, I am for the change</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 11:55 Florian Schmaus &lt;<a href="mailto:flow@gentoo.org">flow@gentoo.org</a>&gt;
    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)">On 18/07/2023 10.42, Зураб Квачадзе wrote:<br>
    &gt; How do we handle this case, then.<br>
    &gt; Imagine we have a leaf package acct-user/foo, which has a reserved UID <br>
    &gt; of 123. It gets last rited and its entry is removed from uid-gid.txt.<br>

    Nobody is proposing that the uid-gid.txt entry is removed. Ideally, it <br> would be marked as &#39;historical&#39;, together with the date it went historical.<br>


    &gt; After a while appears a new package acct-user/bar, which takes the 123 <br>
    &gt; UID. Then a user, say Bob, updates their system, which haven&#39;t been <br>
    &gt; updated for some time. What if they still have acct-user/foo, when &gt; acct-user/bar with the same UID is installed?<br>

    If a UID/GID is in use, then acct-*.eclass will find the next suitable <br>
    ID (unless, e.g. ACCT_USER_ENFORCE_ID is set, we is usually not the case).<br>

    - Flow<br>
    </blockquote></div></div>

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?0JfRg9GA0LDQsSDQmtCy0LDRh@21:1/5 to pacho@gentoo.org on Tue Jul 18 10:50:02 2023
    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 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 11:22 Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:

    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 dir="auto">How do we handle this case, then.</div><div dir="auto">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&#39;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?</
    <div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 11:22 Pacho Ramos &lt;<a href="mailto:pacho@gentoo.org">pacho@gentoo.org</a>&gt; 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>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Mike Gilbert wrote:<br>
    &gt; <br>
    &gt; &gt; On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM Sam James &lt;<a href="mailto:sam@gentoo.org" target="_blank">sam@gentoo.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Haven&#39;t we been keeping these because we still need to decide<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; on a<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; policy about what to do with dead acct-*/* packages?<br> &gt; &gt; &gt; <br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; Right. <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/781881" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.gentoo.org/781881</a> is still open. Flow could<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; ping<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; the QA team and ask if it should be closed, given the opinion<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; there<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; seems to be that there&#39;s no need to keep them, but I think it&#39;s<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; wrong<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; to do this pre-empting a policy decision, given it essentially<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; forces<br>
    &gt; &gt; &gt; the &quot;don&#39;t keep them&quot; path.<br>
    &gt; <br>
    &gt; &gt; The bug has been open for several months without comment. If a<br> &gt; &gt; policy<br>
    &gt; &gt; were going to materialize, I think it would have happened by now.<br> &gt; <br>
    &gt; &gt; Forcing the issue by sending this last rites notice seems<br>
    &gt; &gt; acceptable<br>
    &gt; &gt; to me.<br>
    &gt; <br>
    &gt; I&#39;d say we remove the packages, because system user and group ids are<br>
    &gt; a somewhat scarce resource.<br>

    I agree because of the same reasons <br>

    </blockquote></div></div>

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  • From Fabian Groffen@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 18 11:10:01 2023
    On 18-07-2023 11:42:39 +0300, 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. 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?

    IMO we should, thus 123 should not be removed from uid-gid.txt, and instead
    be marked as reserved or something with a date.

    Thanks,
    Fabian

    --
    Fabian Groffen
    Gentoo on a different level

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  • From Sam James@21:1/5 to Mike Gilbert on Tue Jul 18 12:00:01 2023
    Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> writes:

    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.

    Pinging someone rather than "forcing the issue" as a first-step is customary.

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  • From Sam James@21:1/5 to Sam James on Tue Jul 18 15:20:01 2023
    Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

    [[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:
    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
    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?

    Just to be super duper clear: it's fine with me if we just move on and
    don't keep the packages, but I think a quick /msg #gentoo-qa "hey guys,
    nothing seems to be happening with the bug, do you mind if we just close
    it?" wouldn't have gone amiss.

    That is _all_ I'm asking for here.

    And then when we get onto talk of "incentives" and "illegitimate shadow policies", I become very confused indeed.

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  • From Sam James@21:1/5 to Florian Schmaus on Tue Jul 18 15:20:01 2023
    Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> writes:

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    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:
    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
    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?


    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.


    I'm sorry that somebody missed a ping in a FOSS project. But this is
    probably not the first time it's happened to you.

    Secondly, nobody immediately forces anything.


    I'm saying that speaking to someone works better than committing
    something and then asking for discussion.

    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.

    It's a bit aggressive to take action, without pinging before doing so
    (you did several months ago, that's not really the same thing), to "incentivise" someone.


    Accusing me of not facilitating a QA bug that deals with establishing
    a policy I do not favor seems unfair.


    I'm not sure I'm doing that. I'm saying that doing this preempts a
    decision and that a ping would've been polite.

    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?


    Come on.

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