Debian Patches

Status for shadow/1:4.17.3-2

Patch Description Author Forwarded Bugs Origin Last update
upstream/src-chfn.c-Add-local-variable-to-refer-to-the-separated-f.patch src/chfn.c: Add local variable to refer to the separated field Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> no 2025-02-17
upstream/src-chfn.c-copy_field-Rename-local-variable.patch src/chfn.c: copy_field(): Rename local variable
This makes it more obvious what that pointer is.		 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> no 2025-02-17
debian/Set-group-and-mode-for-g-shadow-files.patch Set group and mode for [g]shadow files
Set group 'shadow' and mode 0400.		 Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> no 2024-06-22
debian/Keep-using-Debian-adduser-defaults.patch Keep using Debian's adduser defaults

Upstream's bbf4b79bc49fd1826eb41f6629669ef0b647267b commit
in 4.9 merged those values from upstream's default configuration file
which is not shipped in Debian.
This patch keeps the program's compiled in defaults in sync with the
configuration files shipped in Debian (debian/default/useradd).		 Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> not-needed debian upstream 2024-06-22
debian/Exclude-Debian-globally-allocated-UIDs-from-sys_uid-range.patch Exclude Debian-globally allocated UIDs from sys_uid range warning Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> invalid upstream 2025-03-16
debian/Document-the-shadowconfig-utility.patch Document the shadowconfig utility
Status wrt upstream: The shadowconfig utility is Debian-specific.
The man page is Debian-specific, but it used to be distributed by
upstream.		 Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> no 2024-06-22
debian/Recommend-using-adduser-and-deluser.patch Recommend using adduser and deluser

Status wrt upstream: Debian specific patch.		 Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> no 2024-06-22
debian/tests-disable-su.patch upstream testsuite: disable su tests
Debian uses su from util-linux, pointless/impossible to test shadow's su
here.		 Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> no 2024-06-27
debian/Adapt-login.defs-for-Debian.patch Adapt login.defs for Debian
Remove settings only applicable to shadow's su, which we do not use.
Remove settings only applicable without PAM support enabled.
Remove obscure commented-out settings.
Remove explanation about write(1), which Debian does not ship anymore.		 Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> no 2024-07-07
debian/Define-LOGIN_NAME_MAX-on-HURD.patch Define LOGIN_NAME_MAX on HURD Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> no 2024-08-06
debian/Stop-building-programs-we-do-not-install.patch Stop building programs we do not install Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> no 2024-08-06
debian/Warn-when-badname-and-variants-are-given.patch Warn when --badname (and variants) are given
Upstream PR 1158 will remove them, probably in the forky timeframe.		 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> no 2025-02-17
debian/configure.ac-align-exec_prefix-with-prefix.patch configure.ac: align exec_prefix with prefix
Hopefully upstream will fix this one day.
Reported as https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/1229		 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> no 2025-02-24
debian/configure.ac-be-deterministic-about-passwd-location.patch configure.ac: be deterministic about passwd location
Improve reproducibility, without Build-Depend:ing on ourselves.		 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> yes 2025-02-24
upstream/Revert-lib-src-Use-local-time-for-human-readable-dates.patch Revert "lib/, src/: Use local time for human-readable dates"
This reverts commit 3f5b4b56268269fefed55aa106f382037297d663.

The dates are stored as UTC, and are stored as a number of days since
Epoch. We don't have enough precision to translate it into local time.
Using local time has caused endless issues in users.

This patch is not enough for fixing this issue completely, since
printing a date without time-zone information means that the date is a
local date, but what we're printing is a UTC date. A future patch
should add time-zone information to the date.

For now, let's revert this change that has caused so many issues.		 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> no 2025-02-14
upstream/src-chfn.c-Partially-revert-lib-src-Use-strsep-3-instead-.patch src/chfn.c: Partially revert "lib/, src/: Use strsep(3) instead of its pattern"

This partially reverts commit 16cb664865541162c504a6f5ef5ca4b38b5e0c9a.

I'll try to reintroduce this change more carefully.
For now, let's revert to a known-good state.

The problem was due to accidentally ignoring the effects of the 'break'
on the 'cp' variable.		 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> no 2025-02-17
upstream/src-chfn.c-Use-stpsep-instead-of-its-pattern.patch src/chfn.c: Use stpsep() instead of its pattern Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> no 2025-02-17
upstream/lib-getdate.y-Ignore-time-zone-information-and-use-UTC.patch lib/getdate.y: Ignore time-zone information and use UTC
There is exactly one caller of this function, and it wants a date, not a
time. It is useless to be able to parse local dates, because we
ultimately store a UTC date. To avoid confusion, unconditionally use
UTC. Since this code had important bugs regarding offset, we can safely
assume that no existing users rely on being able to use their local
date (this never worked correctly).

Also, the code parsing time zones was quite bad.		 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> no 2025-02-18

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