On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:52:53 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org>
wrote:
> 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.

Hello Andreas and Helmut,

Is there anything left to do here after Andreas' NMU fixing
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035820 last month,
or can we close this?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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