FS#28576 - coreutils doesn't depend on shadow

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kaiting Chen (kaitocracy) - Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 05:03 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 24 February 2012, 12:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

So coreutils has 'shadow' in depends but the 'shadow' package is entirely unnecessary. `su` includes <shadow.h> which is provided by glibc and only checks /etc/shadow (owned by filesystem) if it is present. So there's no reason 'shadow' should be in depends.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 24 February 2012, 12:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  In svn trunk
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 07:44 GMT
This seems to have been there forever! At least back to 6.10...

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