[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: Debian/Ubuntu differences for shadow

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:15:24PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I still suppose that some people use "dpkg-reconfigure passwd" in
> their chroots to activate/deactivate shadow, setup root's password and
> eventually create the first user. IMHO, this can perfectly be made
> manual as such people are pretty likely to be able to do it manually
> themselves.....so removing that debconf stuff will help us keeping the
> package simpler (and the diff much smaller).... As a side effect, it
> would remove the need for a big part of the Ubuntu patch.

We've already deleted that part of the Ubuntu patch in feisty. The only
reason it's huge now is that Martin forgot to suppress the part of his
debuild configuration that strips .svn directories while building the
source package. :-)

I believe the diff is now just a few trivial migration bits in the
postinst.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]