dpkg question for conffile /etc/login.defs

I can't reproduce this by installing the breezy deb on top of the hoary deb, so
the package itself is not the cause.

Colin, does the installer pre-generate a /etc/login.defs in some way? This would
explain the conffile question.

I can not duplicate this with a fresh hoary install and then an upgrade of only login to breezy.

I'm sure that I got it, but next time I'll try an upgrade I will check again.

Closing.. i just did a hoary -> breezy upgrade and i haven't seen this question
at all.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Colin, does the installer pre-generate a /etc/login.defs in some way? This would
> explain the conffile question.

Not to my knowledge, no.

This question appeared in an upgrade (using update-manager -d) from a pretty clean Edgy install to Feisty. I have never touched that file. The differences were whitespace and comments.

Can anyone confirm that this affects Feisty to Gutsy upgrades? I tried to do so and couldnt reproduce.

I did not see this bug on upgrade from feisty to gutsy on any of 3 machines.

OK folks, gutsy seems not even to have the package shadow. The following is on a more-or-less standard install, the only changes being turning on compiz and installing awn.

<code>sudo aptitude show shadow</code>
E: Unable to locate package shadow

<code>sudo aptitude search shadow</code>
p libshadow-ruby1.8 - Interface of shadow password for Ruby 1.8

hmm...

I have now tried feisty -> gutsy upgrades on four further machines. I think it would be fair to say that this bug has been squashed one way or another, so I'm closing this. :)

shadow is a source package, not a binary package. apt-cache showsrc shadow

For the record, I just got it again when doing a dapper->hardy upgrade. However, I have the impression that gnome-system-tools' users-admin has something to do with it, since it did not happen in the automatic dist-upgrader.