Bug#343473: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Please do not build package on hurd-i386, breaks debootstrap

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:55:58PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> > We probably also need to remove the passwd dependency on login (loginpam
> > substvar).
> The Hurd package provides login, so the dependency gets resolved
> (because it is not versioned for the hurd-i386 package).

Yes, exactly. This is just the way I initially decided
to resolve the issue.

> Whether there is any technical reason to have it, I do not know.

No.

WRT to the patch you sent -- alternative way to achieve
the same effect would be to make "login" package
non-required on The Hurd, wouldn't it?

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