Hi Thomas, On lun. 13 janv. 2025 15:43:48, Thomas Ward wrote: > Isn't this a serious divergence from Debian? Is there a reason this wasn't > discussed in debian-devel as well? It sounds like something that should also > be discussed upstream not just here in Ubuntu before it's accepted/merged.
We're *inheriting* that change from Debian, where it has been implemented since August[0]. I'm as surprised as you are that there were no discussion of it that I could see on debian-devel. [0]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1552161/accepted-shadow-14160-3-source-into-unstable/ > > Thomas > > ________________________________ > From: ubuntu-devel <[email protected]> on behalf of Simon > Chopin <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 10:41 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Cc: Florent Jacquet <[email protected]> > Subject: `login` transition from src:shadow to src:util-linux > > Hi folks, > > While reviewing Skia's merge of src:shadow, we've noticed that the > `login` binary has been removed from it, and it is now provided by > util-linux (which Skia has also diligently merged). > > Before I upload those merges, I wanted to touch base, especially since > this move is accompanied by a new Pre-Depends from login onto login.defs > (a new binary provided by src:shadow). Sadly, this change has not been > discussed on [email protected]. > > From all I know about Pre-Depends, preinst and conffile handling, and > with consulting with people with actual knowledge of this stuff (hi > Julian), this should all be fine, but in case you're seeing weirdness > happening that seems related to the topic, do get in touch. FWIW, Skia > and I have both been running them on our machines. > > I'll be uploading the two packages Very Soon™. > > Cheers, > Simon > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
