Bug#391717: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#391717: gender in /etc/passwd

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Sun Oct 8 17:44:57 UTC 2006


Quoting Robert Millan (rmh at aybabtu.com):
> reassign 391717 passwd
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:31:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > I think that this is not within adduser's domain and should be cleared
> > with the maintainers of the underlying low level tools.
> > 
> > adduser doesn't care about the GECOS field at all, even the questions
> > asked during interactive account creation are not asked by adduser,
> > but by chfn.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> passwd maintainers, what do you think about this?  The idea would be to add a
> gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and rationale.
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/391717


I personnally dislike the idea (why gender and why not religion or the
like.....I think that the rationale of l10n is a bit haircutting,
here). But, anyway, this is something that should be discussed with
our upstream and he should discuss it with other distros.


If our upstream and/or other "vendors" do not seem interested to add
this information in /etc/passwd, then I will certainly not make a
specific Debian fix.

If they're interested, well we will follow. I'll still dislike this,
though..:)





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