[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#308145: passwd: Depends on 'debconf' which does not have priority 'required'

[Andreas Jochens]

Package: passwd
Version: 4.0.3-32
Severity: grave

The latest upload made 'passwd', which has priority 'required', depend
on 'debconf' which is not 'required', but only 'important'. This is wrong.

Among other things this breaks 'debootstrap', 'pbuilder' and the installer.

Please revert that change.

The number of 'required' packages should be as small as possible. 

The 'Depends' of 'passwd' on 'debconf' would make 'debconf' and all its
recursive dependencies 'required':

debconf-i18n,
liblocale-gettext-perl, 
libtext-iconv-perl,
libtext-wrapi18n-perl,
libtext-charwidth-perl. 

I think this would not be a good idea. Please drop the 'Depends' of 
'passwd' on 'debconf' instead.

Regards
Andreas Jochens