Packaging Guidelines / Users & Groups

[Christopher Engelhard]

Hi,
the wiki-based packaging guidelines note that users or groups created by 
a package should not be removed [1]. This has been omitted from the 
current guidelines [2]. Is that deliberate (i.e. this rule no longer 
stands) or an oversight?

Best,
Christopher

[1] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UsersAndGroups#Allocation_Strate...
[2] 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/...

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[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Thank you for pointing this out.  Looking at the initial conversion of
that page from the wiki into git
(commit8a2c101fb5677dca34e764208893b34daee753bc from 2018-09-21 , that
admon block simply isn't there.  I do not know why, as it seems to have
been in the wiki page source at the time (added in 2013).

It is certainly still true that no package may ever remove a user or
group from the system.  I will look over the document, add the missing
section back in and see if anything else is missing.

 - J<

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 25 juillet 2019 à 10:16 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit :
>  Thank you for pointing this out.  Looking at the initial conversion
>  of
>  that page from the wiki into git
>  (commit8a2c101fb5677dca34e764208893b34daee753bc from 2018-09-21 ,
>  that
>  admon block simply isn't there.  I do not know why, as it seems to
>  have
>  been in the wiki page source at the time (added in 2013). 
Asciidoc convertion of admon blocks was bungled. 

I'm working right now on another guideline part where the central
concept, that was in an important admon block was just replaced with
empty lines.

Since I'm rewriting the page now, and intend to push the result soonish
to FPC, I won’t fix the conversion, but I wonder how many Fedora
guidelines have been purged of important parts.

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Nicolas Mailhot

[Christopher Engelhard]

A quick check indicates that ALL <admon/...> blocks are simply gone, see 
e.g. missing block in cron jobs section [1][2] or all the examples in 
crypto-policies [3][4].

That is a lot of crucial information missing, unfortunately.

Christopher

[1] 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/CronFiles/#_cro...
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:CronFiles#Cron_job_file_names
[3] 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/CryptoPolicies/...
[4] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:CryptoPolicies#C.2FC.2B.2B_appli...

On 7/25/2019 6:00 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  Le jeudi 25 juillet 2019 à 10:16 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit
> :
> > Thank you for pointing this out.  Looking at the initial conversion
> > of
> > that page from the wiki into git
> > (commit8a2c101fb5677dca34e764208893b34daee753bc from 2018-09-21 ,
> > that
> > admon block simply isn't there.  I do not know why, as it seems to
> > have
> > been in the wiki page source at the time (added in 2013).
>  
>  Asciidoc convertion of admon blocks was bungled.
>  
>  I'm working right now on another guideline part where the central
>  concept, that was in an important admon block was just replaced with
>  empty lines.
>  
>  Since I'm rewriting the page now, and intend to push the result soonish
>  to FPC, I won’t fix the conversion, but I wonder how many Fedora
>  guidelines have been purged of important parts.
>   
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