Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm wondering if the passwd package should be essential or not. [...] So, passwd was virtually essential because bash had a dependency on it, but now it doesn't anymore. So why do I think passwd needs to be essential? There are several things

Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
I tend to agree with Kurt opinions below and thus, I'm tempted to make passwd Essential: yes. The opinions in the shadow package maintenance team slightly vary. However, given that this is an important decision, I think it is a good idea to get the advice of fellow developers. So, please

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I tend to agree with Kurt opinions below and thus, I'm tempted to make passwd Essential: yes. The opinions in the shadow package maintenance team slightly vary. However, given that this is an important decision, I think it is

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-01-06 kello 18:38 +0100, Christian Perrier kirjoitti: From: Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several things in the package that one might want to run from one of the maintainer scripts from debconf, like useradd, groupadd, userdel, ... Is there a problem with packages that