Hi, I've made some cleanup of the passwd and login dependencies, and remembered this discussion.
The main change is the move of libpam-modules from Depends to Pre-Depends for login (which is Essential). This moves libpam-modules to a virtual Essential package, which is the reason of this mail (but as mentioned in the earlier thread, I don't think this may be an issue). On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:16:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > But let's have a look: > > Package: passwd > Version: 1:4.0.18.2-1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 2.0.15), > login (>= 970502-1), libpam-modules (>= 0.72-5), debianutils (>= 2.15.2) [...] > login is also Essential: yes, so is only in the list because it's a > versioned dep; but it's a versioned dep on a version older than oldstable, > so we can probably prune that dep from passwd to make the essential set just > a little less tangled. Anyway, nothing in essential currently depends on > passwd so we know there's no problematic loop here. I've removed the versioned dependency of passwd on login (and hence the dependency) > debianutils is likewise essential, and the versioned dep is likewise > satisfied by the version in stable (though not in oldstable). Again the dep > could probably be pruned. I've kept this one. > That leaves libpam-modules being pulled in, which is not currently essential > or a pre-dep of any other essential packages. This is not a spurious > dependency on the part of passwd; actually, I'm left wondering why login has > it as a Depends instead of as a Pre-Depends, since the stock login PAM > config isn't going to work very well without those modules, so login seems > to be failing the requirement to be minimally functional while unpacked but > not configured. I've moved the login's dependency on libpam-modules to a Pre-Depends. Without libpam-modules, login and su will always reject the request. Best Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
