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

[Julien Cristau]

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.

> 2) we warn Clint
> 
> 3) He uploads debianutils 2.15 with the utilities
> 
> 4) He warns us..:-)
> 
> 5) We upload passwd *without* the utilities and 
>    "Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15)"
> 
> 6) we might need to later warn maintainers of shell packages which
>    maybe depend on passwd just because they need the utilities

Cheers,
Julien Cristau