[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: nologin_1.0-2_i386.changes REJECTED

[Christian Perrier]

(removing Joerg in subsequent answers is probably a good iea unless he
explicitely requests to be still CC'ed to exchanges....Michael, as
coreutils maintainer, can still be kept)

Quoting Jari Aalto (jari.aalto at cante.net):
> | Hi Maintainer,
> | 
> | while looking at your package I decided to reject it for now.
> | 
> | - Cant this be included in the coreutils package, maybe even as a
> |   debian addition to it? Did you ask that maintainer?
> |   Would be the most logical place for it.
> 
> The coreutils and login maintainers may be interested. There was a
> note that should have been sent during the WNPP to login maintainer,
> but is has been quiet.

I'm afraid we (shadow package maintenance team, where the login binary
package comes from) missed it.

Could you elaborate on the nologin package so that we say how we are
or might be involved with nologin ?

> 
> I'm not familiar with the release policy of login or coreutils; but if
> they are long, perhaps it would make sense to provide nologin to users

Currently, the shadow team focuses on resynchronization with
upstream. Debian currently has shadow 4.0.3 in unstable (and stable)
while upstream has reached 4.0.12 with many changes.

We are quite close to send 4.0.12 in unstable. The former release,
4.0.11.1, was sent to experimental and still sits there. So will
4.0.12-1 soon.

So, we currently have not that much areas we can divert our attention
to, but of course, new people are very welcomed in the team. I (as the
team "leader") have adopted a very opened policy to welcome new
competences in the team (currently made of 4 very active people, one
more less active but being ready just in case, and a few lurkers
waiting for the time they'll feel ready to contribute).

So, let's just talk about all this as you want, of course. The team's
address is pkg-shadow-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org (opened posting).