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

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 05:17:32PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Marc Haber <mh+pkg-shadow-devel at zugschlus.de> [241029 11:15]:
> > 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.
> 
> I can kinda see that, but I don't want to do this for util-linux,
> and then I'm not seeing the extra value.
> 
> In general for Debian I'd like to see more things move into the
> debian/ namespace. If people introduce crap -because- of that, then
> so be it. They can already (NM)U the packages anyway. I'd rather
> take the extra drive-by help.

The only practical problem I've ever had with base-passwd being in
debian/ was the slight git mess resulting from
https://bugs.debian.org/1012622.  Other than that, to be fair, people
have mostly had the common sense not to touch things when it isn't
needed.

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