On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:05:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > The plan we draw is the following: > 1) shadow package maintainers upload passwd which > "Depends: debianutils (<= 2.14.3)" > this version *still* includes the utilities > The purpose of 1) is to avoid the removal of passwd during new systems > installs between 3) and 5) in case both do not happen at the same > time. Is that actually likely to happen? If this is coordinated, surely uploading the new passwd and debianutils within a day of each other is as easy as uploading shadow twice? > A simpler solution could be merging 3) and 5) in a single upload. Then > the "Depends" in 1) would not be needed. Yeah, that's one way to ensure the uploads are coordinated. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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