[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1109770: passwd: Removal of groupmems caused regression in Mate group-service

Jean-Luc Deprez jeanluc.deprez at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 14:36:24 BST 2025


Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.17.4-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: jeanluc.deprez at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

The removal of the groupmems binary
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004472

Breaks group updating functions of the Mate group-service
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1109067

Kind Regards,
J-L


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.35+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  base-passwd     3.6.7
ii  libacl1         2.3.2-2+b1
ii  libattr1        1:2.5.2-3
ii  libaudit1       1:4.0.2-2+b2
ii  libbsd0         0.12.2-2
ii  libc6           2.41-10
ii  libcrypt1       1:4.4.38-1
ii  libpam-modules  1.7.0-5
ii  libpam0g        1.7.0-5
ii  libselinux1     3.8.1-1
ii  libsemanage2    3.8.1-1
ii  login.defs      1:4.17.4-2

Versions of packages passwd recommends:
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.25

passwd suggests no packages.

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