Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> while testing the base packages I hit the critical bugs surrounding
> the update-passwd binary contained in base-passwd.

Uh, which critical bugs?  --sanity-check now works as expected, is run
by default and update-passwd is no longer run automatically, it has to
be run by the user if it is to be used.

> The postinst should be changed to something along the lines:
> 
> update-passwd --sanity-check
> update-passwd -n
> Ask user if changes are ok.
> If yes
> update-passwd 

No, please don't do this.  Even if you do fix all the known bugs, it's
_way_ too late in the game to put an automatic call of update-passwd
back in the postinst.

-- 
James
~Yawn And Walk North~


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