[Pkg-shadow-devel] Some remaining issues

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Nicolas François (nicolas.francois at centraliens.net):
> Hi,
> 
> Here are some points for which I would like to have others opinion:
> 
>  * Do you think nologin should be distributed in /usr/sbin or /sbin?
>   (I will make a nologin.8 man page)
>   IIRC, it is distributed in /sbin by FreeBSD. Can somebody check this?

The point is: is it likely to be needed in situations where
filesystems are not mounted yet?

> 
> The other points are debian related:
> 
>  * The current NEWS.Debian is installed with both login and passwd. Is this
>    correct?
>    (Is it displayed twice with apt-listchanges?)

Well, given thatboth packages can be installed separately, I think so,
but we should then have a dedicated NEWS.Debian for each package,
would be better.

> 
>  * Also, the release in the current NEWS.Debian lacks the epoch.
>    Is there a probleme if we change the release of this old NEWS.Debian
>    entry?
>    (Was this NEWS displayed by apt-listchanges?)

No, I'm afraid it wasn't.

> 
>  * Some tools are not compiled with PAM support, but their associated
>    /etc/pam.d files are distributed. Shall we remove these files, or shall
>    we compile the tools with PAM support?


We should not provide PAM files for tools not using PAM. Regarding the
compilation with PAM, well, there are mixed opinions (see Steve
remarks about the PAMification of some utilities)