#1109770 passwd: Removal of groupmems caused regression in Mate group-service

Package:
group-service
Source:
group-service
Description:
Manage local user groups via DBus
Submitter:
Jean-Luc Deprez
Date:
2025-07-23 16:27:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1109770#5
Date:
2025-07-23 13:36:24 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The removal of the groupmems binary
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004472

Breaks group updating functions of the Mate group-service
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1109067

Kind Regards,
J-L
#1109770#10
Date:
2025-07-23 16:25:40 UTC
From:
To:
reassign 1109770 group-service
forcemerge 1109067 1109770
thanks

I was approached at DebConf by Mike, and he intended to fix this on
the group-service side (IIRC).

shadow upstream will very likely drop the program.

Chris