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

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Quoting Robert Millan ([email protected]):
> reassign 391717 passwd
> thanks
>=20
> 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?
> >=20
> > I think that this is not within adduser's domain and should be cleared
> > with the maintainers of the underlying low level tools.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> Ok.
>=20
> passwd maintainers, what do you think about this?  The idea would be to a=
dd a
> gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and rationa=
le.
>=20
>   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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