The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy.The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
(Standards-Version 4.1.0 instead of
3.9.8).
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer
normal
The packages that base-passwd depends on which need a new maintainer are:
![[bug history graph]](https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/b/base-passwd.png){kind=link}