Re: Should md5 password settings be preserved across upgrades?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Stephen Gran]
> > The bug should really be reassigned to base-config, as it's
> > overwriting other packages conffiles, no?  That's the real root of
> > the problem here, I think.
> 
> No, that is not the case.  base-config calls 'dpkg-reconfigure
> passwd', and that step is overwriting the config files of package
> passwd.

The passwd should use ucf for configfile handling instead of shipping
a conffile.

MfG
        Goswin