On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:42:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> writes: > > However, there's an awkward problem blocking the change, namely #184979. > > The last time I made any change to passwd.master or group.master that > > caused update-passwd to prompt everyone to accept it was in December > > 2004. Since then, the policy manual has been updated to say that all > > packages must use debconf for prompting (albeit with an exception for > > Essential and transitively-Essential packages, but only in that they may > > have a fallback mechanism). base-passwd is not in compliance with this > > policy and it will require an extensive rewrite of update-passwd.c to > > make it so. > > Ah! Thank you. I hadn't realized this was the issue.
I've been terrible at communicating it, so no wonder :-) > I assume that would mean that update-passwd would need to become a client > of the libdebconfclient0 library? That was my thought, yes. There are probably other ways to do it, but I think pulling libdebconfclient0 into transitively-Essential is reasonable at this point (given that it aligns with the long-term plans for debconf), and is likely to be the simplest change. > Phillip, given the above background, would you be willing to modify the > libuuid package to use /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin instead of /bin/sh > for the shell for the libuuid user? That package doesn't have the same > issues that base-passwd has. Right, no reason to couple these. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
