On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:53:35PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > Package: x11-common > Severity: serious > tags 400632 -wontfix > > Greetings, > > The setuid usr/bin/X binary should not be shipped with x11-common > because it's not *needed* for X11 clients. That by itself is a good > enough reason. Put it in xserver-xorg-core or similar, not in > x11-common. > > Additionally, x11-common gets pulled in on server for things like > libgd-xpm, which isn't entirely unreasonable if someone wants to > generate an X pixmap on a server. One could also have, I dunno, > *xterm* installed on a server for clients to use without have an X > server installed on the same server. Unless xterm *requires* > usr/bin/X, it shouldn't be installed as part of something xterm > depends on.
The easy and obvious fix is to just ship this with xserver-xorg instead. To be honest, I'm not sure why this ended up in x11-common instead of here. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
