tags 249372 pending thanks > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:18:21PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > this patch got applied a while ago, which makes /bin/login being > > provided by the login package and passwd Depend on it.
Now hurd's "passwd" will have non-versioned dependency on "login" that should allow to use native hurd's login instead of shadow's one. Michael, please test this. // shadow's SVN rep is at svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-shadow. // To build a package, extract shadow_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz // and just copy pkg-shadow/trunk/debian subdir from SVN // to shadow-4.0.3 to debianize. > How was it on Hurd? I got an answer to this. Previously shadow's "passwd" was built for Hurd so that it did not depend on "login" at all. But fix for #249372 broke this tradition. IMHO, this is not a good thing to have strong dependency discarded for hurd. The good question Michael asked me was "why at all passwd depends on login?". I replied "because of common stuff like /etc/login.defs and /etc/securetty". I'm pretty sure this does not make strong dependency, and it looks like all useradd/userdel etc can operate without /etc/login.defs at all (at least they worked on hurd before...). That's why I did not drop the dependency in question for hurd but made it non-versioned. After more discussion, I think we will either make a separate shadow-common pkg, or change passwd's "Depends: login" to "Recommends: login". Please, send your comments. -- WBR, xrgtn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
