How to handle home directory change in /etc/passwd.pacnew?

Hey,
the recent update of the filesystem package had a change in /etc/passwd that
I am not sure how to handle:
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/usr/bin/nologin
was changed to
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As you can see, the home directory of daemon was changed from /sbin to /.
Should I merge that change into my /etc/passwd?

I have read that thread but I am not quite sure that it applies to
this situation.
Leonid.I basically says that
[...] if your group/passwd files are functional before the update -- keep them as is
(unless you wan to do cosmetic changes)
Now, adding info to the GECOS field or substituting /sbin with /usr/bin
doesn't really alter the behaviour of the system, but changing a user's
home directory seems a little bit more fundamental to me.

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