Bug#343473: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#343473: #343473: login: Please do not build package on hurd-i386, breaks debootstrap

Fri Dec 16 22:55:58 UTC 2005

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> We probably also need to remove the passwd dependency on login (loginpam
> substvar).
> 
> IIRC, the only reason for this dependency is because /etc/login.defs is
> needed by the passwd tools.
> 
> And /etc/login.defs is provided by passwd on The Hurd.

The Hurd package provides login, so the dependency gets resolved
(because it is not versioned for the hurd-i386 package).  Whether there
is any technical reason to have it, I do not know.

Michael

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