On lun. 13 janv. 2025 15:43:48, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Isn't this a serious divergence from Debian? Is there a reason this wasn't discussed in debian-devel as well? It sounds like something that should also be discussed upstream not just here in Ubuntu before it's accepted/merged.
We're *inheriting* that change from Debian, where it has been
implemented since August[0]. I'm as surprised as you are that there were
no discussion of it that I could see on debian-devel.
[0]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1552161/accepted-shadow-14160-3-source-into-unstable/
>
> Thomas
>
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> From: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-devel-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Simon Chopin <simon.chopin@canonical.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 10:41 AM
> To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com <ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Florent Jacquet <florent.jacquet@canonical.com>
> Subject: `login` transition from src:shadow to src:util-linux
>
> Hi folks,
>
> While reviewing Skia's merge of src:shadow, we've noticed that the
> `login` binary has been removed from it, and it is now provided by
> util-linux (which Skia has also diligently merged).
>
> Before I upload those merges, I wanted to touch base, especially since
> this move is accompanied by a new Pre-Depends from login onto login.defs
> (a new binary provided by src:shadow). Sadly, this change has not been
> discussed on debian-devel@l.d.o.
>
> From all I know about Pre-Depends, preinst and conffile handling, and
> with consulting with people with actual knowledge of this stuff (hi
> Julian), this should all be fine, but in case you're seeing weirdness
> happening that seems related to the topic, do get in touch. FWIW, Skia
> and I have both been running them on our machines.
>
> I'll be uploading the two packages Very Soon™.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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