In foo.debian-devel, you wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just updated my potato system. The only two packages that were being > updated were debhelper and egcs-docs. I got a warning from dpkg that > debhelper (it seemed) was trying to overwrite /usr/bin/passwd. Due to all > of the trojan rumours flying around, I got a little scared. Also, I > couldn't see why debhelper would want to overwrite /usr/bin/passwd. > > Any ideas? Is this something I should worry about?
Could you please post the version(s) you have and which mirror you got it from? The /usr/bin/passwd file should be owned by the 'passwd' package [bash]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/passwd passwd: /usr/bin/passwd Also, the debhelper package should not overwrite /usr/bin/passwd... [bash]$ dpkg --listfiles debhelper |grep /usr/bin/ /usr/bin/dh_builddeb /usr/bin/dh_clean /usr/bin/dh_compress /usr/bin/dh_du /usr/bin/dh_fixperms /usr/bin/dh_gencontrol /usr/bin/dh_installchangelogs /usr/bin/dh_installcron /usr/bin/dh_installdeb /usr/bin/dh_installdebfiles /usr/bin/dh_installdirs /usr/bin/dh_installdocs /usr/bin/dh_installexamples /usr/bin/dh_installinit /usr/bin/dh_installmanpages /usr/bin/dh_installmenu /usr/bin/dh_makeshlibs /usr/bin/dh_md5sums /usr/bin/dh_movefiles /usr/bin/dh_shlibdeps /usr/bin/dh_strip /usr/bin/dh_suidregister /usr/bin/dh_testdir /usr/bin/dh_testroot /usr/bin/dh_testversion /usr/bin/dh_undocumented /usr/bin/dh_debstd /usr/bin/dh_installemacsen /usr/bin/dh_installwm /usr/bin/dh_link /usr/bin/dh_listpackages [bash]$ dpkg --status debhelper |egrep '^Version' Version: 1.2.27 [bash]$ dpkg --status passwd |egrep '^Version' Version: 980403-0.3 [bash]$ egrep '^deb' /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
