deb...@j.hallam.dk writes: > Since the shell entry for news is set deliberately by me, I expect > base-passwd to ASK whether it may change it.
It does, but it asks with a debconf prompting level chosen via an educated guess about some combination of how likely it is that the change was important, intentional, not spammy on upgrades, etc. It sounds like that heuristic failed in your case. Unfortunately, we have to make a guess at what priority to use for everyone. The general rule of thumb is that changes to home directories, UIDs, GIDs, or removing a user entirely are asked with high priority, changes to shells are asked with medium priority, and changes to GECOS and some other low-impact stuff are asked with low priority. So you would need your prompting level set to medium or lower to see the prompts about shell changes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
