Quoting Julien Cristau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi Christian,
>
> I have a comment on your proposed plan.
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 20:23:24 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > So, the summary is:
> >
> > ("the utilities" below stands for add-shell and remove-shell)
> >
> > 1) shadow package maintainers upload passwd which
> > "Depends: debianutils (<= 2.14.3)"
> > this version *still* includes the utilities
> >
> I don't get why you need a Depends: at this point. I think it would be
> enough if debianutils 2.15 Replaces: passwd (<= ...), and the next
> passwd has a Depends field as in 5).
> AIUI, that was what Clint proposed at first, and I don't see why it
> wouldn't work.
Because my understanding is that it will remove passwd during the
transition period if users install new systems at this moment....
passwd is not an Essential package so I guess that debianutils would
"win" then.
Actually a Depends line on an Essential package does not hurt that much...
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