reassign 580286 update-notifier-common
thanks

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:23:16AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> This one was a bit hard to track down. After a while, my /etc/motd
> would be reduced to one empty line or info about packages updates.

> It happens that pam_motd executes /etc/update-motd.d if it exists (with
> run-parts) but nothing in this directory rebuilds the standard motd.

> This could be a bug in update-notifier-common, or in pam (not providing
> a small file such as:
> ebene:~$ cat /etc/update-motd.d/00-header 
> #!/bin/sh
> uname -snrvm
> [ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail

Yes, I think this is a bug in update-notifier-common for shipping this file
in Debian without having an appropriate versioned dep on something that
builds the main part of the motd.  Reassigning.

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