[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330874: Reassigning bug to dpkg...probably to be closed

[Christian Perrier]

reassign 330874 dpkg
thanks

A short summary:

During one day, in version 4.0.12-3, the login package did not include
/etc/pam.d/su because of a bug in the package build process. The file
was there in 4.0.12-2, was removed in -3 and was re-added in -4.

This file came back very quickly in the package, but it seems that
users who did the two upgrades (-2 --> -3, then -3 --> -4) were then
prompted about replacing "their" /etc/pam.d/su file (which was just
kept from the -2 version).


Frank Küster, the bug submitter, thinks this is a bug in dpkg. However
I'm not sure he's right because that means that dpkg should have kept
the md5sum of the N-2 version while upgrading the N-1 to N version.


I think this is impossible, but I leave to you, Scott, the final word
on it.


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