[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#596283: Freeze exception: shadow / possible cron update?

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-09-21 11:49 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 19:10:50 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
>
>> On 09/19/2010 06:21 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 17:21:38 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Assuming that #596283 will be fixed by a -2 release of shadow, I was
>> >> wondering whether the Release Team would like a cron -115 as well, with
>> >> this feature removed from /etc/cron.daily/standard.
>> >>
>> > Sounds reasonable.  I'm not sure introducing yet more 'Breaks' is
>> > necessary though.  The worst case if you're using new cron and old
>> > shadow is your stuff isn't backed up, right?
>> 
>> That is correct. However, that worst case -- however unlikely -- might
>> be severe enough to warrant the Breaks:. I'm therefore tending towards
>> the latter, but will leave the final call up to you.
>> 
> I guess the other option is to leave both backups in place for squeeze,
> and remove the one from cron later.  A bit confusing to have those files
> backed up from 2 places, but no harm other than that.  I think I'd like
> that more than Breaks...

How about letting cron depend on the new passwd package instead of
breaking the old?  ISTM this would have been the better action for
#541415 as well.

Sven