Hi Marco, two questions about convert-etc-shells:
1.) why does usrmerge.postinst call /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-etc-shells (nearly) unconditionally (i.e. on every upgrade of the usrmerge package)? Shouldn't that be a one-shot update and therefore be called at the end of maybe_convert (from within maybe_convert, not after), s.t. it is skipped if the system is already converted?
2.) can you call update-shells from within convert-etc-shells (or from usrmerge.postinst directly before calling convert-etc-shells), s.t. most of the /etc/shells modifications are performed by update-shells and the state file /var/lib/shells.state gets updated properly?
I have just uploaded a NMU for debianutils to DELAYED/10 that fixes some issues (#1035820) and maybe makes convert-etc-shells superfluous.
Andreas
