Bug#208514: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#208514: add-shell should not depend on passwd : what's *really* intended here?

[Christian Perrier]

tags 208514 - wontfix
tags 208514 confirmed
retitle 208514 [DEBIAN DECISION] add-shell should not depend on passwd
thanks

> The reason shells need to depend on passwd is because if you
> install shells without passwd being on the system, and then install
> the passwd package, those shells will not show up in /etc/shells.
> 
> Anyway, I don't really care about this so feel free to close this bug.


Well, thanks for bringing more input about this, Herbert. I think that
we now have enough material to decide what should be done. Probably
not soon now as we are in the process of cleaning out the shadow
package mess and we have more urgent things like resyncing with
upstream.

So, I will *not* close this bug. I will tag it as "must be discussed
Debian-wide" to decide whether add-shell is to be moved to some other
package...or just to its own package.