Hello there, I recently did the work to merge `shadow`, and during the review process @schopin pointed out that maybe we should discuss here about the main change, so here we are. In Debian, the `login` binary package has recently moved from the `shadow` source package to the `util-linux` one. Everything is discussed on this (quite old and long) bug [1], but the TL;DR is the following: - The bug was originally opened in 2016 with the aim to improve consistency with other distros. - Followed a long thread discussion many interesting details until 2020 when it went dormant. - The bug was reactivated this last summer by @bluca, this time with a real need to do the transition: util-linux's version of `login` is well integrated with autologin for containers and VMs. I'm not very familiar with this (see message #129 for details), but the use-case seems legit to me. - The work was finally done by @zeha, and the bug closed in August.
The merge of both packages is done and mostly ready to upload (see bugs [2] and [3]), and can be tested in my PPA [4]. If nobody raises any concern with this change, we will proceed with the upload in January. Happy EoY :-) Skia [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833256 [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/2089923 [3]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/2091862 [4]: https://launchpad.net/~hyask/+archive/ubuntu/shadow-merge-lp2089923 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
