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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, gentoo-dev-announce <gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New acct-* package policy
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:46:12
Message-Id: 20200106004605.GA14215@bubba.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New acct-* package policy by Martin Dummer
1 On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:36:53AM +0100, Martin Dummer wrote:
2 > Am 21.12.19 um 18:32 schrieb Michał Górny:
3 > > Please commit and push uid-gid.txt [3] change to data/api.git *before*
4 > > your packages. This makes sure that any potential collisions are caught
5 > > as merge conflicts before they hit users. The CI also catches UID/GID
6 > > collisions.
7 >
8 >
9 > One remark from a "proxy-maintainer" view:
10 >
11 > A proxy-maintainer (like me) cannot commit or add github pull requests for 
12 >
13 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/tree/files/uid-gid.tx
14 >
15 > and therefore cannot allocate a valid UID/GID for valid new ebuilds in
16 > pull requests.
17 >
18 > So for proxy-maintained packages which need acct-user/acct-group ebuilds
19 > this must be
20 >
21 > - either done like before - announcement on the gentoo-dev ML, then
22 > committed by ???
23 >
24 > - or done by a member of the proxy-maintainers group.
25 >
26 >
27 > Maybe you find the time to refine that exception in the documentation.
28 >
29 >
30 > Bye
31 >
32 > Martin
33
34 https://github.com/gentoo/api-gentoo-org/pulls
35
36 --
37 Cheers,
38 Aaron

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