[Pkg-shadow-devel] Length of user names with regard to encoding.

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

* Marc Haber <mh+pkg-shadow-devel at zugschlus.de> [241120 18:09]:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > * Marc Haber <mh+pkg-shadow-devel at zugschlus.de> [241115 09:19]:
> > > Everything helps. In the mean time, I am working on
> > > https://wiki.debian.org/UserAccounts to find some consensus and to have
> > > a single place of "truth" regarding user accounts.
[..]
> I think the wiki page is now in a state that I won't embarrass mysself
> by going on debian-devel with that, which I will do tomorrow after
> sleeping over things once more and doing some final polishing and also
> going over my draft for the -devel message asking some questions like
> "should we expicily allow unicode in usernames, document and support
> this".

> Should I put in a postscriptum like "in case you want to collaborate or
> help with the packages that interface with the user database and get
> close to this exciting topic, please get in touch with
> pkg-shadow-devel at l.d.o"?

Maybe just cross-post to both lists?

Chris