Bug#2345: Inclusion of shadow breaks up some packages in the current (0.93R6) packaging system
Dirk> David Frey writes:
Dirk> David> Package: shellutils, miscutils
Dirk> David> Version: 1.12, 1.3
Dirk> David>
Dirk> David> The introduction of shadow passwords breaks up the packaging
Dirk> David> system of the packages "shellutils" and "miscutils"; since
Dirk> David> they include not only Login-related utilities (login,
Dirk> David> su...) but other utilities as well, which shouldn't be lost
Dirk> David> only due to the introduction of the shadow package.
Dirk>
Dirk> It's entirely up to you, the sysadmin, to add whatever you like onto your
Dirk> Debian system.
Sure.
But if I want to contribute a shadow-3.3.2-1.deb-Package,
it's necessary that the _distribution_ has the packages
shellutils and miscutils broken up into an additional
package `login' as well, so that I'm able to _replace_ the
old login, passwd, su stuff with the new shadow programs.
It would be nice to have shadow passwords as an option, this
would be an big plus to choose Debian over slackware/redhat
or whatever (besides the packaging system... :)
Dirk> But if you do, please do so on the /usr/local filesystem and make
Dirk> sure /usr/local/{sbin,bin} come before the others bin dirs in the
Dirk> PATH. You can then keep the Debian executables.
This works only for ``user'' programs, i.e. programs which don't have to
be available in single-user modus when /usr is not mounted.
David
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