Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

[Christian Perrier]

> I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of shadow
> should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building when
> something's going wrong. Even if it's called "unstable", the day I won't be
> able to log onto my machine for one whole day, I'll get *mad*. 

One of the duties of package maintainers is *testing* his/her package
before uploading it.

So, even if, of course, we cannot test everything, at least a basic
"dpkg -i login_... passwd_..." later followed by some basic login
tests are assumed to always happen.

So, well, we can retitle the bug "Please write a testsuite for shadow
building"....and then leave it lie in the BTS for another 5 years, for
sure.

I sincerely doubt someone will ever take care of writing such a test
suite.

And I sincerely hope to be proven wrong..:-)