[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#669698: Bug#669698: login: Please support dynamic motd (initscripts change)

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:44:30PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Roger Leigh (rleigh at codelibre.net):
> > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 02:07:31PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > Quoting Roger Leigh (rleigh at debian.org):
> > > > Package: login
> > > > Version: 1:4.1.5-1
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > > Tags: patch
> > > > 
> > > > Separation of static and dynamic motd components
> > > 
> > > THanks for your patch, Roger, I committed it.
> > 
> > Please could you add the additional change below.  This just ensures
> > that in the unlikely even that scripts are present in
> > /etc/update-motd.d, they aren't run and displayed twice.
> > 
> > If it would be possible to update this this week, that would be
> > much appreciated--I'm going to make an additional sysvinit
> > upload to experimental shortly, and hopefully to unstable by the
> > end of the week, so it would be nice to have this in place before
> > it goes into unstable.
> 
> I'm not sure we can make it. I committed your proposed change, Nicolas
> worked on upstream shadow last week-end but I don't know if he has
> plans to upload.

Please don't worry if this isn't possible.  The worst case is that
people logging into the console won't have the uname output visible
for a few days, so it's not a major problem at all.


Thanks,
Roger

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