[Pkg-shadow-devel] should src:adduser, src:shadow and src:base-passwd work together?

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Hi,

* Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> [240804 14:36]:
> Would it be a good idea to form a joint effort, maintaining src:adduser,
> src:shadow and maybe src:base-passwd in more close organization? It
> would probably make more sense to keep the three packages in their own
> repositories and as their own source package, but maybe having a joint
> maintainer address would be a good idea to be able to discuss things
> like #1077804 easier.

I don't disagree, but I'll note some things:

As you know, src:shadow uses an alioth mailing list [AML] , where
I believe a number of people are subscribed, including Serge and
maybe others from shadow upstream.

There is quite some overlap with util-linux, too. Some tools
traditionally provided by src:shadow in Debian are now provided by
src:util-linux, and there are open quests to use more of the
util-linux tools.

I'd invite everyone involved to subscribe to [AML], as that seems
like an easy option. I'm open to other ideas too.
Some place on IRC would also be useful.

Chris


[AML] pkg-shadow-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org