Le Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:58:07 +0200, Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> a écrit :
> Hello Laurent Bigonville! Hello Andreas Henriksson :) > > Bringing up an old discussion.... >[...] > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:04:50AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > > Maybe we should investigate switching some binaries like su and > > login from shadow to util-linux? Apparently RHEL/Centos/Fedora is > > building them from util-linux. > > > > But there are probably some differences between them. > [....] > > As it looks like the Stetch development cycle will soon open up > I'm going to look into shipping util-linux implementations in > several places where we in Debian today ships some other > (dead upstream?) implementation. > > The shadow-utils implementations is not included in what I intend > to look at though. > > Is there any chance you're willing to investigate if its possible > and why we'd want to use util-linux implementations instead of > shadow-utils? AFAIK using shadow-utils is one of those things > that are Debian-unique and there are probably people out there > who knows the reason why we're not using the same shadow solution > as other distributions. Your help here would be very welcome! > I'm sure you understand that this is one of those things where > careful examination is needed and I know you're already good > at keeping every detail in order from your previous work. > Adding Christian (the maintainer of the shadow package) to the loop. I'm not too sure I'll be able too look at this soon as my free time is really limited ATM, but I think (if Christian agrees of course) that it might be a good idea. Cheers, Laurent Bigonville > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org