[Bug 176253] Review Request: clement-2.1

bugzilla at redhat.com bugzilla at redhat.com
Mon Aug 14 14:49:22 UTC 2006


Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.

Summary: Review Request: clement-2.1


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176253





------- Additional Comments From jmp at safe.ca  2006-08-14 10:39 EST -------
(In reply to comment #24)
> > E: clement non-standard-gid /var/spool/clement-2.1/mqueue clement
> 
> Who cares? This is not the first package that creates a new user/group.
Me!.
Agree this is not the first package creating a user/group....
problem, if rpmlint is THE reference and rpmlint is reporting error how
can I make the difference between real error which are errors from simple
advice... now in my case there is 48 "errors" which are 'who cares',....
hmmmm......
> 
> > My understanding of the last Michael comment is to let the sys-admin
> > delete the remaining user/group himself, right?
> 
> Yes. If package removal does not get rid of all files owned by that
> user/group, the next package might allocate the same uid/gid and give
> some other software access to the old files, which are still left
> on the file-system as orphans.
OK, lets keep the user/group then
> 



-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.




More information about the Fedora-package-review mailing list