Bug#269573: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#269573: First plans to move {add|remove}-shell from passwd to debianutils

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Julien Cristau (jcristau at liafa.jussieu.fr):
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I have a comment on your proposed plan.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 20:23:24 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > So, the summary is:
> > 
> > ("the utilities" below stands for add-shell and remove-shell)
> > 
> > 1) shadow package maintainers upload passwd which 
> >    "Depends: debianutils (<= 2.14.3)"
> >    this version *still* includes the utilities   
> > 
> I don't get why you need a Depends: at this point. I think it would be
> enough if debianutils 2.15 Replaces: passwd (<= ...), and the next
> passwd has a Depends field as in 5).
> AIUI, that was what Clint proposed at first, and I don't see why it
> wouldn't work.


Because my understanding is that it will remove passwd during the
transition period if users install new systems at this moment....

passwd is not an Essential package so I guess that debianutils would
"win" then.

Actually a Depends line on an Essential package does not hurt that much...