Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: transition anouncement proposal

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Nicolas François (nicolas.francois at centraliens.net):
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a proposal for the transition announcement.

No mor echanges proposed so this is the final version.

> 
> We need to find if the transitionned login must conflict with all the
> packages which are not following the new synopsis.
> (There was a discussion about it on debian-devel, but IIRC no strong
> point)

I would say "only those that use the new synopsis in their maintainer scripts"

> 
> I will make a patch to enable swicthing to the old behavior with an
> environment variable (SU_NO_SHELL_ARGS).


That one is still to happen.

I'm urging this a little as we have to know that we're not *that* far
from etch release...so we really must work on fixing 276419 right
now....