Re: Bug#2345: Inclusion of shadow breaks up some packages in the current (0.93R6) packaging system
(I took this off debian-bugs and onto debian-devel.)
David> But if I want to contribute a shadow-3.3.2-1.deb-Package, it's
David> necessary that the _distribution_ has the packages shellutils and
David> miscutils broken up into an additional package `login' as well, so
David> that I'm able to _replace_ the old login, passwd, su stuff with the
David> new shadow programs.
Right, but did you see the discussions on debian-devel on this? I am not sure
that there is an established consensus to go for shadow-3.3.2 *now*. Maybe
later.
David> It would be nice to have shadow passwords as an option, this would
David> be an big plus to choose Debian over slackware/redhat or whatever
David> (besides the packaging system... :)
I do personally agree, I used to use shadow passwords. But I *really* what
the transition to happen in an organised manner, and that involves a little
more I am afraid (ie recompiling/linking of netstd, wu-ftpd, xlockmore, ...)
David> This works only for ``user'' programs, i.e. programs which don't
David> have to be available in single-user modus when /usr is not mounted.
Oops, sorry, overlooked that one. You're right, those have to go into
/bin,/sbin unless you create a "local" dir on the root partition and modify
your path which is way too ugly.
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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