[arch-dev-public] [signoff] shadow-4.1.4.3-2

Gaetan Bisson bisson at archlinux.org
Tue Jun 28 03:21:38 EDT 2011


[2011-06-26 12:58:44 -0400] Eric Bélanger:
> shadow-4.1.4.3-2 is in testing.
> 
> I've updated the package to use a svn snapshot. The shadow version
> (4.1.4.3) currently in the repo is just the 4.1.4.2 version that was
> released 2 years ago with a security fix. Using a more recent svn
> snapshot will fix several issues like FS#21951.  Debian use the same
> snapshot for their stable release plus the shadow package maintainer
> for Debian is also the upstream developper. So it should be pretty
> stable. :)
> 
> Other fixes I did:
> - Removed the obsolete GETPASS_ASTERISKS option from /etc/login.defs
> (close FS#19207)
> - Fixed strncpy usage (close FS#23216)
> - Updated license
> - Added acl depends

Signoff i686.

-- 
Gaetan


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