Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, We would now like to get rid of this bug. What do you recommend: * keep a Debian specific implementation and tag this bug wontfix * reapply the patch to fix this bug, and report bugs on the packages that uses this feature Could you document and wait until etch release?

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
The ideal way to approach this is to announce a change, Which is what we are doing now. We neglected to do so the first time (mostly because we didn't anticipate this would break pbuilder so much) and this is why we reverted the change very quickly. document that change, provide some

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, support for that change (like POSIXLY_CORRECT) Then change. We've got quite a bit of tools in sarge that doesn't work with this change, right? From what Nicolas investigated, not that much. He only found dchroot and pbuilder up to now. Nicolas does not pretend to have a

Re: Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
FWIW, pbuilder in sid is fixed since 0.129 (17 August 2005), and I am hoping that will probagate into some stable backports, so that practically, pbuilder side is ready for the new su. Well, this is actually great news as pbuilder was by far the main blocker for this change. Sorry for

Re: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Unfortunately, this broke pbuilder (see #317264), and other Debian packages (e.g. dchroot). So this patch was (at least temporarily) removed, and the current behavior documented. We would now like to get rid of this bug. What do you recommend: * keep a Debian specific implementation

Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: [Pbuilder-maint] Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We would now like to get rid of this bug. What do you recommend: * keep a Debian specific implementation and tag this bug wontfix * reapply the patch to fix this bug, and report bugs on the packages that uses this feature Could you