[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330874: login: dpkg thinks I have modified/etc/pam.d/su

[Frank Küster]

Nicolas François <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net> wrote:

>> Since this is a pbuilder tar.gz, I'm sure I have never changed or
>> created this file;  there must be an error in the -5 upload.
>
> I think this is a side effect of #330291.
>
> In 1:4.0.12-3, we did not distribute /etc/pam.d/su, so this is normal that
> 4.0.12-5 considers that this file was created by you.
>
> If you or another shadow maintainer agree, I think we can close this bug.

I agree that it's not a bug in shadow, and will cause no harm because it
will only occur once when upgrading from -3 to -(n>3).  However, it
seems to be a bug in dpkg to not support the "resurrection" of
conffiles. 

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer