Latest version of sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r2 - uprade it if you wanna break your box

Hi all,

Yesterday tried to upgrade my funtoo box. The core package, sys-apps/shadow was upped at its current rev - sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r2 ... And the problems began.

First of all, no etc-update nor dispatch-conf helped in any way. The package was probably too buggy (or something like). Masked to the previous STABLE/WORKING version in /etc/portag/package.mask as follows:

>sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5

and everything was quite ok after system rebuild.

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