How come /sbin/nologin is in /etc/shells contradicting the man page?

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 13:41, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Be aware that there are programs which consult this file to find out if
> a user is a normal user. E.g.: ftp daemons traditionally disallow
> access to users with shells not included in this file.

Looks like bz #53963 is why it got changed from its intended purpose. Re-open 
the bug and agree with comment #6?  ;)   I wonder if there's breakage from 
unfixing the bug since its been 6 years of being wrong?

-Steve