> As it breaks the specifications of Linux Standard Base, I don't. Please, > don't revert to a broken su. That would make Debian's su different from > any other su in UNIX-like operating systems and restrict it to a very > small subset of invocations it will serve.
Actually, we did revert to a broken su. While seeing that several things were broken by the change, I decided to go one step back and just take time for other people to be able to fix thei packages. So, the plan is have one of us writing a small document explaining the issue, then post to -devel with it, then start a long flamewar, then have the offending packages fixed to be able to work both ways if they can....then upload a fixed shadow. The summertime is probably not very well suited for this, so it may take a few weeks to complete the process, anyhow. > What do you think about creating a su-old-behavior package, which depends > on su (and will work with both old and new su) and contains a wrapper > executable (shell script, perl script or binary) called e.g. old-su, to > provide the old behavior of su using new (or old) su? Your suggestion sounds interesting as well. I will need to put the "pbuilder and others" people attention to this and make them think about this transition and the possibility you suggested to have a transitory period of time. My only concern is that such temporary package might sound as a bit overkill to solve this problem. I'm opened and hearing from all of you, folks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
