Quoting Josh Triplett (2022-07-26 17:29:43) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > I just remembered a pending MR that I'd say is a little more important than > > "good to have": > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/21 > > > > Without this one-line change, /etc/shells on merged-/usr systems will have some > > shells listed twice and some shells (like /usr/bin/bash) missing. The reason > > is, that dpkg-realpath doesn't support merged-/usr and thus a workaround is > > needed. > > Over the years, I've seen a few proposals floated to consider dropping > /etc/shells; this would just require dropping pam_shells.so from > /etc/pam.d/chsh. That would also have the side effect of solving this > problem, and making one less thing requiring maintainer scripts. > > Would it be worth reopening that discussion, and evaluating the net > value of continuing to maintain /etc/shells? "one less thing requiring maintainer scripts" is not an argument anymore because update-shells from debianutils is precisely the mechanism that avoids maintainer scripts for updating /etc/shells. It does so by using a dpkg trigger on /usr/share/debianutils/shells.d instead. We were able to remove maintainer scripts updating /etc/shells (partly or completely) from bash as well as dash thanks to update-shells in debianutils. Thanks! cheers, josch
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