[Pkg-shadow-devel] Ubuntu shadow 1:4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2

[Nicolas François]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:43:29AM +0200, bubulle at debian.org wrote:
> Nicolas, not sure you got this one....
> 
> I really wonder why such patch isn't forwarded to us by the person who
> managed the shadow package update in Ubuntu.

I'm putting the ubuntu uploader in CC for information.

The patch fixes some performance issues when there is a big number of
users, and when the UID of the new user is specified on the command line.

This issue was fixed in 4.1.1. I would recommend Ubuntu to switch to that
version, which would mean getting also rid of this patch.

IIRC, there are still some performances issues when there is a large
number of users, and when this list is not just parsed from a file and put
in memory (i.e. for slow/network databases). IIRC, redhat has a patch to
improve this use case, which I need to review.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral