[Christian Perrier]
> Peter Samuelson mentioned passwd being Essential because it depends
> on passwd. This is actually right. However this dependency is just
> the consequence of bash needing the add-shell and remove-shell
> utilities...so, in the future, bash shouldn't depend on passwd
> anymore
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Our plan seems correct. Some (Peter Samuelson, Steve Langasek) suggest
it is a bit overflated and synced uploads of fixed packages should be
enough.
However, Frans mentioned autobuilders which will not guarantee that
both packages will reach unstable at the same dinst
> > A simpler solution could be merging 3) and 5) in a single upload. Then
> > the "Depends" in 1) would not be needed.
>
> Yeah, that's one way to ensure the uploads are coordinated. :)
BUT one should have the dependencies (and eventually build dependencies) in
there ANYWAY.
People often do par
[Frans Pop]
> > shadow 1:4.0.12-6 where passwd Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15)
> > debianutils 2.15 Conflicts and Replaces: passwd (<< 1:4.0.12-6)
>
> Hmm. That will cover i386 I guess. What about other arches that are
> autobuilt? (Assuming of course that both maintainers upload for i386.)
On Sunday 02 October 2005 00:09, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> Just coordinate two uploads to happen in the same dinstall cycle:
>
> shadow 1:4.0.12-6 where passwd Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15)
> debianutils 2.15 Conflicts and Replaces: passwd (<< 1:4.0.12-6)
Hmm. That will cover i386 I guess. Wha
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:05:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The plan we draw is the following:
> 1) shadow package maintainers upload passwd which
>"Depends: debianutils (<= 2.14.3)"
>this version *still* includes the utilities
> The purpose of 1) is to avoid the removal of p
[Christian Perrier]
> The goal is having a system which always has the two utilities...and
> of course avoid the removal of passwd (debianutils is Essential while
> passwd isn't).
passwd effectively is Essential because bash depends on it. So I'm
pretty sure you don't have to worry about it bein
The bugs #208514, #268656, #269573, #29317 all finally suggest moving
add-shell and remove-shell out of the passwd package.
These utilities are use to "register" shells in /etc/shells and they
obviously do no belong to the passwd package.
Having them in passwd enforces shells to depend on it jus
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