Hello Karl and Sam, During Debconf4, there has been some discussions within the d-i team and some maintainers of Custom Debian Distributions (mostly Skolelinux) about the status of the Debian package for shadow.
As you have obviously noticed, I have NMU'ed the package four times last month, mostly for l10n considerations. The installer team has built a strong team of translators which have all made a huge work for bringing a lot of translations to core d-i and the related packages, including shadow. This is basically why I did these NMUs. I also fixed one or two usability bugs in passwd.config but tried to be very conservative there...(not enough, indeed, as I managed to break it once) The discussions we had lead to the conclusion that closer attention needs to be done with this package. We're currently considering building a project on alioth for the package maintenance so that more people may help maintaining it....which of course includes you both. This is not a takeover....or at least not yet (well, if we do not get any answer, you may imagine some takeover will happen)....but a proposal for a wider collaborative maintenance which should probably benefit all of us. Indeed, several people over there in Brazil told me "just take over this package, Christian". I don't want to, for two reasons: -my shoulders are a bit not wide enough and I can't add all this weight on them...:-) -I certainly don't want to be rude in any matter towards you and a simple takeover *would* be rude What is your feeling about this? If you run short of time, please just drop a very short word so that we can have an idea of where we currently are going.... -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
