Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> writes: >> [Russ Allbery]
>>> Hm. I'm a little nervous about doing this as a stable update because >>> it's the sort of thing that one doesn't change in stable. The change >>> would break people who were relying on the default to synchronize >>> passwords. I added a NEWS.Debian entry for it when I changed it in >>> unstable, and changes in behavior at the level of a NEWS.Debian entry >>> seem like they wouldn't meet the criteria for a stable update. >> I can understand your reluctance, but believe the current default is >> simply broken for most users of the package. :/ > Well, I can ask the release team and see what they think. I'm afraid the reaction of the stable release managers was pretty much the same as my answer above: it's unfortunate that this is broken in stable, but this sort of change is too much to take as a stable update. I'm sorry about that, and sorry for having sat on that bug for so long so that it was left unfixed for squeeze. :/ -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
