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Re: Debian PAM



Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo writes:
 > I've read http://www.debian.org/devel/release_info and noted that one of
 > Debian 2.2 (potato) goals is:
 > 
 > PAM integration 
 > 
 > Does this mean Debian has no PAM support? Why is it? What's the problem
 > with PAM?

No problem, it's there, it's not integrated though. All the libraries
came already with 2.0, it's just that the system wasn't built on them
(the login, xdm and other programs didn't use them.)

 > Also:
 > 
 > perl 5.005 and ncurses 
 > 
 > Does it mean they still do not have perl5.005? What's the problem here?
 > Does anybody familiar with Debian knows it? 

The latest version of perl in Debian is 5.004. From a quick glance at
debian-devel I can see that too much stuff broke when they tried to
upgrade to 5.005. So it goes as a goal for potato, together with
XFree86 3.3.3.*, and glibc2.1. Slink is infamous with its sore timing
(a lot of stuff was released after the freeze) and the long freeze
period. OTOH it will probably be a very stable distribution, which is
a plus. (From what I can see on debian-devel, perl 5.005_2 is not a
stability king, and neither is glibc2.1.)

As to ncurses, I don't know what do they mean here, ncurses4 was
already in 2.0 and certainly is in 2.1.


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Alex Shnitman
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