Upcoming shadow package in unstable will change su behaviour

2006-04-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Hello, In a recent announcement in debian-devel-announce [1], the shadow package maintenance team announced an importance change in the behaviour of the "su" command. As reported in #276419 [2], su in the login Debian package doesn't permit to specify options to the invoked sh

New experimental shadow package 4.0.11.1-1, synced with upstream

2005-07-30 Thread Christian Perrier
The shadow package maintenance team is glad to announce the release of version 4.0.11-1 of the shadow package, in experimental. Shadow is the source package for passwd and login and is part of the base system. Both packages are "Priority: required". This package was highly desynchro

Re: How to find really old source of the shadow package

2005-05-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 30 May 2005 02.03, Nicolas François wrote: > Does anybody know where I can find older sources? [ of shadow ] - have you tried asking the shadow maintainers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - perhaps somebody has old CVS repositories or whatever lying around? - The Debian changelog goes back to

Re: How to find really old source of the shadow package

2005-05-30 Thread Nicolas François
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:40:12PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Nicolas François] > > I'm looking for really old sources of the shadow package. > > With http://snapshot.debian.net, the latest I can find is 2902-12 > > (2002/06/04). > > > > Does anybo

Re: How to find really old source of the shadow package

2005-05-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Nicolas François] > I'm looking for really old sources of the shadow package. > With http://snapshot.debian.net, the latest I can find is 2902-12 > (2002/06/04). > > Does anybody know where I can find older sources? Google for mirrors of archive.debian.org. Until arch

How to find really old source of the shadow package

2005-05-29 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, I'm looking for really old sources of the shadow package. With http://snapshot.debian.net, the latest I can find is 2902-12 (2002/06/04). Does anybody know where I can find older sources? TIA, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-14 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:20:15PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: >* Marc Wilson wrote: >>On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >>>* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Since July 2004, I've got no news from Karl and any further attempt to get in touch w

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-14 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Since July 2004, I've got no news from Karl and any further attempt to > > > get in touch with him has been unsuccessful. Even before this, it > > > becam

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Since July 2004, I've got no news from Karl and any further attempt to > > get in touch with him has been unsuccessful. Even before this, it > > became quite obvious that the package

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Don't take this as a promise to take it over, but I'll see > > what I can do. > > I already made an attempt: > http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/debian/ Please don't build it as a native Debian package, so there's a separ

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit > > > too much and I have no strong motivation for xscreensaver. > > > > Just asking, since somebody would have to do it. > > Don't take this as a promise to take it over, but I'll s

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:52:25PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? >> >>I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit >>too much and I have no strong motivation

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 13 mars 2005 Ã 21:52 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt a Ãcrit : > * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? > > > > I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit > > too much and I have no stron

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? > > I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit > too much and I have no strong motivation for xscreensaver. Just asking, since somebody would have to do it

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Christian Perrier
> > I have announced in many places my intent to take over the package > > development, which I'm in fact doing since mid 2004 (with NMUs). > > Would you also take over xscreensaver and maybe let me co-maintain it? I'm afraid I have to decline. More packages would be, for me, a bit too much and

Re: Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since July 2004, I've got no news from Karl and any further attempt to > get in touch with him has been unsuccessful. Even before this, it > became quite obvious that the package is not very actively maintained. Same goes for his xscreensaver package, wh

Offer to take over the shadow package (passwd and login binary packages)

2005-03-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Hello folks, The shadow package is officially maintained by Karl Ramm, with assistance by Sam Hartman. It is the source package for "login" and "passwd", two important pieces of Debian base system. I have helped Karl in collecting the package translations (both debconf and p

shadow package

1996-08-21 Thread Michael Meskes
I've just uploaded the first version of the new (almost final) shadow packages to my ftp site. Please test them as much as possible. They are under: ftp://feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/debian.local/binary-i386/shadow-* I devided shadow into three packages: 1) shadow-passwd which is thought

Bug#4076: shadow-package (not a deb-format-archive)

1996-08-12 Thread Michael Gaertner
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > Michael Gaertner writes ("Bug#4076: shadow-package (not a > deb-format-archive)"): > > Package: shadow > > Version: 960530-1 > > > > with dpkg 1.2.13elf: > > > > ./shadow_960530-1_i386.deb > &g

Bug#4076: shadow-package (not a deb-format-archive)

1996-08-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Gaertner writes ("Bug#4076: shadow-package (not a deb-format-archive)"): > Package: shadow > Version: 960530-1 > > with dpkg 1.2.13elf: > > ./shadow_960530-1_i386.deb > > prints: > "dpkg-deb: 'shadow...' is not a debian format archive

Bug#4076: shadow-package (not a deb-format-archive)

1996-08-09 Thread Michael Gaertner
Package: shadow Version: 960530-1 with dpkg 1.2.13elf: ./shadow_960530-1_i386.deb prints: "dpkg-deb: 'shadow...' is not a debian format archive" Michael Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel/Fax +49-761-32684

New shadow package uploaded

1996-06-19 Thread Michael Meskes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 19 Jun 96 12:28 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: shadow Version: 960530-1 Binary: shadow Architecture: i386 source Description: shadow: Manage shadow password and group files Chang