(I hesitated a long time before seding this to d.d.a. We announced the earlier experimental release in -devel only, actually with the same message, but that one is aimed at being the last experimental release of shadow, so we -shadow maintenance team- want it to get as much reviews as possible) The shadow package maintenance team is glad to announce the release of version 4.0.12-1 of the shadow package, in experimental, after the realease of 4.0.11.1-1 on July 30th. Shadow is the source package for passwd and login and is part of the base system. Both packages are "Priority: required". They provide "su" which is used by many packages in many tasks. This package was highly desynchronized with upstream: up to now we had version 4.0.3 in Debian (including sarge and sid) while upstream was still moving on with many changes. Moreover, the 4.0.3 Debian version had accumulated a huge number of Debian-specific patches. Since May, the shadow package maintenance team has worked both on the current version in Debian (trying to deal with over 120 bug reports, some of them being over 5 years old), and the new version. While dealing with many issues in 4.0.3, the team also did its best to resynchronise with upstream. The huge number of Debian patches made this work very tedious and long, which explains the 4 months delay for a new version in Debian. However, thanks mostly to the work of Nicolas François, helped by Alexander Gattin, as well as the upstream author's (Tomasz Klockzko's) collaboration, we have managed to prepare a new release which uses the latest upstream code, namely version 4.0.12. We did our best to keep all features from 4.0.3 available with the goal of making the transition as smooth as possible. Of course, given the critical importance of some utilities provided by login and passwd (mostly su), we have decided to upload two new versions in experimental. That one is hopefully the last one before an upload in unstable. Please test it as much as possible by installing the new passwd and login packages. Package maintainers who use "su" in their maintainer scripts should test them with the new su as much as possible. We also recommend all package maintainers using useradd to give these packages a try and check them (DO NOT confuse useradd, which is a "low level" utility provided by passwd, and adduser which is a Debian specific utility, provided in a separate package). Hope you'll enjoy the new beast, And, don't forget: The shadow package maintenance team, starring (ALPHABETICALLY) Nicolas François INTERNATIONALLY SUPER STARRING (ALPHABETICALLY) Alexander Gattin EXTRA-TERRESTRIALLY CO-SUPER (ALSO ALPHABETICALLY) STARRING Tomasz Klockzko SUPER-INTER- GALACTICALLY (A BIT ALPHABETICALLY) CO MEGA STARRING Christian Perrier SUPRA COSMICALLY INTER-UNIVERSALLY ULTRA ALPHABETICALLY HYPER-STARRING Martin Quinson AND Christine Spang AS THE WOMAN WITH THE BIGGEST CREDIT
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