[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#833256: util-linux: Please use login/su/... implementations provided by util-linux

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.28-6
Severity: normal

Hi,

ATM, on debian, login, su, ... are provided by the shadow package.

It seems that all other distribution are using the implementations from
util-linux.

Shouldn't debian do the same and shouldn't we build the "login" from
util-linux?

This should of course be coordinated with the maintainer of the shadow
package.

Regards,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  libblkid1      2.28-6
ii  libc6          2.23-4
ii  libfdisk1      2.28-6
ii  libmount1      2.28-6
ii  libncursesw5   6.0+20160625-1
ii  libpam0g       1.1.8-3.3
ii  libselinux1    2.5-3
ii  libsmartcols1  2.28-6
ii  libsystemd0    231-1
ii  libtinfo5      6.0+20160625-1
ii  libudev1       231-1
ii  libuuid1       2.28-6
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  dosfstools          4.0-2
ii  kbd                 2.0.3-2
ii  util-linux-locales  2.28-6

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