Do you need tester reports? I've been using the shadow package for a month or so, and everything seems to work fine. I'm not the best test case, since it's a one-man machine, but it does work. :-) I think the install process should fix up an /etc/alternatives link to xdm-shadow, shouldn't it?
Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t