[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1004710: Bug#1004710: passwd: 4.11.1 breaks mmdebstrap testsuite by empty directories in /var/mail and /var/spool/mail

[Bálint Réczey]

Control: severity -1 serious


Hi Johannes,

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch at debian.org> ezt írta (időpont:
2022. febr. 1., K, 0:39):
>
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.11.1+dfsg1-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: josch at debian.org
> Control: affects -1 mmdebstrap
>
> Hi,
>
> steps to reproduce:
>
> $ sudo debootstrap unstable debian-unstable-good https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220131T090427Z/
> $ sudo debootstrap unstable debian-unstable-bad https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220131T160201Z/
>
> when diffing both directories one sees:
>
> Only in debian-unstable-bad/var/mail: _apt
> Only in debian-unstable-bad/var/mail: systemd-network
> Only in debian-unstable-bad/var/mail: systemd-resolve
> Only in debian-unstable-bad/var/spool/mail: _apt
> Only in debian-unstable-bad/var/spool/mail: systemd-network
> Only in debian-unstable-bad/var/spool/mail: systemd-resolve
>
> The only packages that differ between both chroots are the versions of
> login and passwd, hence I'm filing this bug here.
>
> The problem is, that this breaks the testsuite and autopkgtest of
> mmdebstrap. Notably, a chroot created with mmdebstrap does not include
> these directories.
>
> Is this change indeed related to passwd?

I'm raising the severity to look into that.

> Is the creation of these empty directories intended?

I'm not sure yet.

> Do you have an explanation why they are only created with debootstrap?

Not yet, but thank you for the bug report.

Cheers,
Balint


> Thanks!
>
> cheers, josch