Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > However, there's an awkward problem blocking the change, namely #184979. > The last time I made any change to passwd.master or group.master that > caused update-passwd to prompt everyone to accept it was in December > 2004. Since then, the policy manual has been updated to say that all > packages must use debconf for prompting (albeit with an exception for > Essential and transitively-Essential packages, but only in that they may > have a fallback mechanism). base-passwd is not in compliance with this > policy and it will require an extensive rewrite of update-passwd.c to > make it so.
Ah! Thank you. I hadn't realized this was the issue. I assume that would mean that update-passwd would need to become a client of the libdebconfclient0 library? Phillip, given the above background, would you be willing to modify the libuuid package to use /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin instead of /bin/sh for the shell for the libuuid user? That package doesn't have the same issues that base-passwd has. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mwlnhpsp....@windlord.stanford.edu
