[Bug 275169] Re: no kerberos support for pam-auth-update?

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at canonical.com> writes:

> It would certainly be wrong for libpam-modules to call pam-auth-update
> --remove on deconfigure.  OTOH, so far I've assumed that as a dependency
> of (Essential: yes) login, libpam-modules will never be removed, so I
> don't call pam-auth-update --remove /at all/ for that package.  For
> other packages it may make more sense to call --remove on deconfigure --
> but not with the current pam-auth-update implementation, since --remove
> also wipes the preferences for whether the named config is enabled or
> disabled, and we don't want to lose this information every time a
> package is deconfigured.

Okay, that makes sense, although that raises an additional question:
wouldn't preferences be considered local configuration, and hence should
only be removed on purge?  (This would be future work for pam-auth-update,
of course, not something that could be fixed right away.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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