[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Pkg-shadow-commits] r213 - trunk/debian/patches

Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:39:35 +0200


Hello Tomasz,

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:02:30PM +0000, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Author: bubulle
> > Date: 2005-06-09 19:02:29 +0000 (Thu, 09 Jun 2005)
> > New Revision: 213
> > 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/debian/patches/005_manpages.dpatch
> > Log:
> > Remove the patch of limits.5 as we don't use this file anymore in the Debian
> > package
> 
> Maybe we should make sure that these improvement reach upstream if Tomacz
> still distribute this page...

For Debian, we won't distribute the limits.5 man page because it does not
describe the format of the /etc/security/limits.conf page which is used by
PAM.

But this page is useful when compiled without PAM. The only changes in
this page in Debian was to change its name and the name of the limits file
(limits.conf), so these changes can be dropped.
The only open point for you may be to distribute this man page only if
PAM is not enabled.

For Debian, I will submit the updated man page (already sent on the list),
which describe the PAM's limits.conf format.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral