On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:33:57AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Upstream removed suidperl support in 5.12. I think we should indeed > have announced this better (although you will have seen the perl-suid > package being removed). We don't seem to have a NEWS.Debian file in > the perl package; I wonder if this would be a suitable place to put > this information or whether it should eventually go somewhere like the > release notes for wheezy.
My initial feeling is that this is overkill. The perl package is installed on all Debian systems (well, 99.45% according to popcon), and I expect that only a very tiny minority cares about suid Perl scripts. If we could restrict this to only those who have perl-suid installed, it would be OK-ish IMO, but I can't see any way to achieve that except a transitional non-functional perl-suid package, which seems backwards. I think README.Debian and release notes may have to do. Maybe we should bring this up on debian-devel to get other opinions. -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
