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Bug#944329: debian-policy: Unclear text about password files modifications



Hello,

On Fri 08 Nov 2019 at 01:18AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote:

> There's this text in section §9.2.1:
>
>   ,---
>   Packages other than "base-passwd" must not modify "/etc/passwd",
>   "/etc/shadow", "/etc/group" or "/etc/gshadow".
>   `---
>
> It's not clear to me, whether this refers to the packaging or any
> program provided by that package. Depending on the reading this
> would make the passwd package buggy. So it might be worth clarifying
> probably by adding "passwd" to the exception.

Makes sense to me.  Perhaps you could propose a patch.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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