Intent to do a non-maintainer release of shadow-980403.

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

A week or so ago I sent a report[1] regarding the latest upstream version
of the shadow password utils, in that report I detailed which bugs were
fixed, and I offered to do a non-maintainer release.

I have yet to receive any response, I assume this is because the maintainer
(Guy Maor) is busy, so if there are no objections, I will go ahead and do a
non-maintainer release.

I intend to upload to frozen, as there is little new functionality, and
many bug fixes, including at least one critical.

[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/21/21357.html

Here's my changelog:

shadow (980403-0.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer release.
  * New upstream release (18225).
  * (debian/login.postinst)
    * Use 'touch' instead of 'cat >' when creating /var/log/faillog
      (15998,16187,21687).
    * No longer fails if no previous configured version exists (11433).
  * (gpasswd): now checks which user invoked it before calling setuid()
(18132).
  * (debian/passwd.postinst): removed bashism (13753).
  * (groupmod): NULL dereference fixed upstream, as a result, it no longer
    dumps core when changing group name (16893,17894).
  * (useradd): no longer segfaults if /etc/default/useradd is missing (18628).
  * (login.defs.1): now documents more options (13485).
  * (source): includes 'missing' (13815,18133,21280).
  * (login.1):
    * Removed mention of "d_passwd(5)", which doesn't exist,
      and login.defs.5 now documents /etc/dialups (15176).
    * Added /etc/nologin to FILES section and reference nologin(5) (21695).
  * The URL mentioned in Bug#15391 is no longer valid.
  * (login.defs): no longer sets ULIMIT (17529).
  * (login):
    * No longer uses static buffers for group lines (17532).
    * Doesn't seem to make assumptions about gid_t any longer (21767).
  * (faillog.8): s-/usr/adm-/var/log-g (19974).
  * (lastlog.8): notes that "some systems" use /var/log instead of
    /usr/adm (21746).
  * Install upstream changelog as 'changelog.gz' as per policy (20052).
  * (secure-su): Changed /etc/suauth to reference the group 'root'
    instead of 'wheel' (17593).

 -- Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:32:12 -0700

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Joel "Espy" Klecker    <mailto:jk@espy.org>    <http://web.espy.org/>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/>



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