Bug#1074320: shadow: clean up now obsolete /var/log/faillog

2024-08-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. On Mon, 2024-08-05 at 01:55 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Could you provide a suggestion for NEWS.Debian? What about something simple like: - /var/log/faillog and the programs to read it are no longer part since this version. The file isn't cleaned up automatically, which s

Bug#1074320: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1074320: shadow: clean up now obsolete /var/log/faillog

2024-08-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 01:55:20AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > I'm not comfortable with removing the file automatically. I agree. How about renaming it to faillog.not.used.since.shadow.$VERSION or something like that? To indicate that the log is intentionally not written to any more. Greet

Bug#1074320: shadow: clean up now obsolete /var/log/faillog

2024-08-04 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 04:25:45PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Now that /var/log/faillog is obsolete and the tool for reading it is gone, > too, > (so the user cannot really do much with the old file anymore), shouldn't the > file be cleaned up (or at least some note given in NEW

Bug#1074320: shadow: clean up now obsolete /var/log/faillog

2024-06-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: shadow Version: 1:4.15.2-2 Severity: wishlist Hey. Now that /var/log/faillog is obsolete and the tool for reading it is gone, too, (so the user cannot really do much with the old file anymore), shouldn't the file be cleaned up (or at least some note given in NEWS.Debian about this having