Shadow package maintainers

At the time of the last Lintian run, the following possible problems were found in packages maintained by Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, listed by source package. See also the report showing only errors and warnings. Also see their QA overview.

• W ancient-standards-version
  • 3.9.5 (released 2013-10-28) (current is 4.4.1)
• P file-contains-trailing-whitespace
  • debian/changelog (line 3886)
• P no-dep5-copyright
• I public-upstream-key-not-minimal
  • upstream/signing-key.asc has 3 extra signature(s) for keyid E9FEEA06A85E3F9D
• I quilt-patch-missing-description
  • 508_nologin_in_usr_sbin
• I testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
• X upstream-metadata-file-is-missing
• W useless-autoreconf-build-depends
  • dh-autoreconf
• I vcs-field-not-canonical
  • https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shadow https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shadow.git

login

• I conflicts-with-version
  • amavisd-new (<< 2.3.3-8) [amd64, i386]
  • backupninja (<< 0.9.3-5) [amd64, i386]
  • echolot (<< 2.1.8-4) [amd64, i386]
  • gnunet (<< 0.7.0c-2) [amd64, i386]
  • python-4suite (<< 0.99cvs20060405-1) [amd64, i386]
• I debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk
• O setuid-binary
  • usr/bin/newgrp 4755 root/root [amd64, i386]
• I spelling-error-in-manpage
  • usr/share/man/man5/login.defs.5.gz "permits to" "permits one to" [amd64, i386]
• I unused-override
  • possible-missing-colon-in-closes l667:closes bug 336321 [amd64, i386]

passwd

• X binary-file-built-without-LFS-support
  • usr/sbin/useradd
  • usr/sbin/userdel
  • usr/sbin/usermod
• W binary-without-manpage
  • sbin/shadowconfig
• I debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk
• X maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version
  • postinst:11 1:4.0.14-9 (2006-03-15 < 2017-06-18)
• W manpage-has-errors-from-man
  • usr/share/man/it/man8/vipw.8.gz 95: warning: macro 'AQ' not defined
• O setgid-binary
  • usr/bin/chage 2755 root/shadow
  • usr/bin/expiry 2755 root/shadow
• O setuid-binary
  • usr/bin/chfn 4755 root/root
  • usr/bin/chsh 4755 root/root
  • usr/bin/gpasswd 4755 root/root
  • usr/bin/passwd 4755 root/root
• I spelling-error-in-binary
  • usr/sbin/groupadd "allow to" "allow one to"
  • usr/sbin/groupmod "allow to" "allow one to"
  • usr/sbin/useradd "allow to" "allow one to"
• I spelling-error-in-manpage
  • usr/share/man/man1/gpasswd.1.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/chgpasswd.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/groupadd.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/groupadd.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/groupdel.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/groupmems.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/groupmod.8.gz "allow to" "allow one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/groupmod.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/grpck.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/newusers.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/pwconv.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/useradd.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/userdel.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/usermod.8.gz "allows to" "allows one to"
  • usr/share/man/man8/usermod.8.gz "permits to" "permits one to"

uidmap

• I debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk
• I extended-description-is-probably-too-short
• O setuid-binary
  • usr/bin/newgidmap 4755 root/root [amd64, i386]
  • usr/bin/newuidmap 4755 root/root [amd64, i386]