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Re: Freeze exception for shadow



Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Nicolas François]
>> Compared to my previous mail, I added some comments in /etc/login.defs.
>
> Will the comments in /etc/login.defs trigger a conffile prompt from
> dpkg on installations where the local admin had edited login.defs
> before the upgrade?  If so, I urge you to not make such change in a
> stable update.

This indeed makes sense. A lot of users tend to use non-interactive
upgrade process in servers and that would break that.

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