A week or so ago I sent a report[1] regarding the latest upstream version of the shadow password utils, in that report I detailed which bugs were fixed, and I offered to do a non-maintainer release.
I have yet to receive any response, I assume this is because the maintainer (Guy Maor) is busy, so if there are no objections, I will go ahead and do a non-maintainer release. I intend to upload to frozen, as there is little new functionality, and many bug fixes, including at least one critical. [1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/21/21357.html Here's my changelog: shadow (980403-0.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer release. * New upstream release (18225). * (debian/login.postinst) * Use 'touch' instead of 'cat >' when creating /var/log/faillog (15998,16187,21687). * No longer fails if no previous configured version exists (11433). * (gpasswd): now checks which user invoked it before calling setuid() (18132). * (debian/passwd.postinst): removed bashism (13753). * (groupmod): NULL dereference fixed upstream, as a result, it no longer dumps core when changing group name (16893,17894). * (useradd): no longer segfaults if /etc/default/useradd is missing (18628). * (login.defs.1): now documents more options (13485). * (source): includes 'missing' (13815,18133,21280). * (login.1): * Removed mention of "d_passwd(5)", which doesn't exist, and login.defs.5 now documents /etc/dialups (15176). * Added /etc/nologin to FILES section and reference nologin(5) (21695). * The URL mentioned in Bug#15391 is no longer valid. * (login.defs): no longer sets ULIMIT (17529). * (login): * No longer uses static buffers for group lines (17532). * Doesn't seem to make assumptions about gid_t any longer (21767). * (faillog.8): s-/usr/adm-/var/log-g (19974). * (lastlog.8): notes that "some systems" use /var/log instead of /usr/adm (21746). * Install upstream changelog as 'changelog.gz' as per policy (20052). * (secure-su): Changed /etc/suauth to reference the group 'root' instead of 'wheel' (17593). -- Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:32:12 -0700 -- Joel "Espy" Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]