motu-release will revert libgems-ruby to the old state.

Loïc Minier loic.minier at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 3 09:55:24 BST 2008


On Wed, Sep 03, 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >  For example, libnssmdns mangles /etc/nsswitch.conf to add its entries:
> >  this sounds equally intrusive to me.
> I for one don't consider that high praise, I'm not happy with packages
> taking it upon themselves to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf. :)  By my reading,
> that's a violation of Debian Policy ¶ 10.7.4, but one that's been quite low
> on my list of bugs to file so long as PAM remained in disarray.

 For the record, I agree the nsswitch.conf mangling is intrusive and I
 would also like to move to wrapper scripts to manage its contents.

-- 
Loïc Minier



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