On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 01:45:30AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Marc has, in another mail thread, asked what plans there are for
> shadow right now. I've tried to summarize what is going on below.
> Feedback very much welcome.
> 
> 
> I don't really know what is happening upstream, but ISTM Serge,
> Alejandro, Iker are actively working on cleaning up the code base.
> I understand shadow will keep a lot of things that Debian doesn't
> care about, f.e. support of non-PAM systems.
> 
> Anyone looking at the code will agree that it needs the clean up :-)
> 
> At the same time there is upstream interest in dropping utilities
> overlapping with util-linux, see:
>     https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/999
> 
> 
> For Debian
> ==========
> 
> 
> Maintainership
> --------------
> 
> As you've probably noticed, Balint has stepped down, and I've
> stepped in. In case you didn't know, I'm also wearing the Debian
> Maintainer: hat for util-linux.

...

> I think that's all? Quite a long list anyway.
> 
> 
> Chris

Thanks, Chris, for taking on the debian package!

-serge

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