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

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:15:05AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Since shadow, adduser and base-passwd are exposed security-wise as well, it
> would probably make sense to move the three source packages from the Debian
> project to its own Salsa project, probably best called shadow-team.
> 
> We can then decide together whether to move the Maintainer field of base-passwd
> and adduser to pkg-shadow-devel at l.a.d.o as well. Adduser has its Maintainer set
> to adduser at p.d.o, so interested parties can subscribe via the tracker, and
> shadow has its Maintainer set to the mailing list. This leaves base-passwd
> where there currently is no possibility to see maintainer mail like support
> requests, bug reports and other issues.
> 
> I offer to ask for the shadow-team to be created on salsa, but that does not
> make sense until shadow has indicated to go along.
> 
> And I also offer to help with base-passwd and act as a backup for you,
> Colin.

I'm OK with all these proposals.  I guess moving the repositories out of
salsa:debian/ would need some help from Salsa admins?

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]