Bug#316219: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#316219: passwd - please enable shadow by default on firsttime installation

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Bastian Blank (waldi@debian.org):
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:14:25PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Means that we enforce shadow passwords.
> 
> Nope, it only enforce shadow if $2 is empty which only happens on
> firsttime installation or after someone purged the package.

Right, I missed the context.

> 
> >                                         We can obviously do this,
> > however, I think that we should move the conditional config based on
> > the debconf question to the top of the config script.
> 
> You have to ask it if not flagged as seen in this case. Also this
> violates "debconf is no registry".


Well, I'm not sure that the "debconf is not a registry" karma actually
really means something. I have to think about this. Anyway, we will
fix this after the 4.0.3-36 release.