Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:38:15AM +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > > > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > > > > Hello fellow developers, > > > > > > > > I would like to request your help in testing the new version of the > > > > shadow package (that provides login, passwd and such other important > > > > or base packages). > > > > I haven't got much feedback....which is indeed what I was more or less > > > expecting. ;-) > > > > So, well, let's jump into the mud (I love to do that when > > > running.....not sure I love to do that in my FLOSS activities) and > > > I'll soon upload shadow to unstable.... Be prepared. > > > so first glitch I found is that /etc/subuid was not created for me. > > login.postinst only creates that on new installs. In Ubuntu it > > does so anytime it does not exist - I assume you made that change > > on purpose? usermod -v refuses to run if the file does not exist, > > so users will need to be told to create those files themselves. > > The right answer is probably to create the file on new installs and on > upgrades from versions earlier than the first version introducing this.
Yeah I was thinking that last night - i guess this is pretty easy to do, and some people will not want to have those files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140502133823.GC1760@ubuntumail
