Control: retitle -1 util-linux: Please use login/passwd implementations provided by util-linux
Hello, So the /bin/su takeover has recently been done. Implementation was in shadow 1:4.5-1.1 and util-linux 2.32-0.2. Testing migration has already happened and this is thus in for Buster release. This should be a good preparation step for migrating the rest of the tools over to the util-linux implementation. Hopefully we can make login and passwd packages non-Essential while at it. Exact details on how to implement the switch needs to be further studied, but many details has already been investigated and is part of the backlog of this bug report. Retitling this bug report accordingly. Please note that the Breaks/Depends relationship between login and util-linux is "backwards". This is needed to trick apt into unpacking new util-linux before new login (thus leaving no gap during upgrade where /bin/su is not available). The relationship can be switched around again once upgrade has been performed (after buster release as far as debian is concerned, but maybe also wait until after next ubuntu LTS? Depends on how the situation looks after entire takeover is implemented I guess). Regards, Andreas Henriksson
