Bug#2345: Inclusion of shadow breaks up some packages in the current (0.93R6) packaging system

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  David Frey writes:
  David>  Package: shellutils, miscutils
  David>  Version: 1.12, 1.3
  David>
  David> The introduction of shadow passwords breaks up the packaging system
  David> of the packages "shellutils" and "miscutils"; since they include not
  David> only Login-related utilities (login, su...) but other utilities as
  David> well, which shouldn't be lost only due to the introduction of the
  David> shadow package.

It's entirely up to you, the sysadmin, to add whatever you like onto your
Debian system.

But if you do, please do so on the /usr/local filesystem and make sure
/usr/local/{sbin,bin} come before the others bin dirs in the PATH. You can
then keep the Debian executables.

This is not a bug, IMHO, as the Debian system behaves as specified --- ie
without shadow passwords.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd