[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#990412: pam: Regression - it won't search /lib/security

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 08:46:30AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Hideki" == Hideki Yamane <henrich at iijmio-mail.jp> writes:

> control: tags -1 -patch -pending
> I NACK this proposed NMU.

> This many years after multiarch, I think it is entirely reasonable for
> PAM to drop support for non-multiarch paths at the transition between
> buster and bullseye.
> As I said earlier in the bug, I'm happy to add breaks on libpam-yubico
> or other packages as necessary.
> I think Steve is quite familiar with multiarch and while he hasn't
> commented yet I'm assuming he dropped those patch lines as part of
> removing unnecessary upstream deltas.

> I think you failed to read my comments in the 990412 bug log before
> Merging and reassigning.


For the record, I did not intentionally drop those lines, this was a matter
of a mis-merge.

My only concern about dropping support for the legacy path is that this is
an API that may be used by third-party software, not just by Debian
packages.

I'm ok with requiring all Debian packages to use the multiarch path for PAM
modules, provided libpam0g then also declares a Breaks: against older
versions of those packages which use the legacy path.

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