Bug#342923: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#342923: passwd should depend on libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-14)

[Christian Perrier]

> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
> 
> I just upgraded the passwd package on a mostly-woody system to the sarge
> version, and found that the new /etc/pam.d/passwd said:
> 
>   @include common-password
> 
> However, /etc/pam.d/common-password didn't exist.  I then tried this:
> 
>   root at aragorn:/etc/pam.d# passwd
>   passwd: Permission denied
>   root at aragorn:/etc/pam.d(1)# passwd cpbs
>   passwd: Permission denied
> 
> I found that /usr/share/doc/libpam0g/Debian-PAM-MiniPolicy.gz says:
> 
>   Applications need to depend on libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-14) to
>   guarantee that /etc/pam.d/common-* exist.


passwd and libpam-runtime are both required packages. The versions in
sarge, especially for libpam-runtime, fit the above requirement.

I'm not sure that partial upgrades to sarge have to be supported so I'm very
tempted to close this bug report. If you upgrade a woody system,
please follow the suggested upgrade path by using "aptitude
dist-upgrade". Then passwd will work as expected.

Anyway, this is not enough to motivate an update in sarge, so if the
bug is not closed because someone brings a new argument for not
closing it, it will be tagged "sarge" and marked "wontfix".