Bug#702558: pstack: Pstack fails (as documented) to generate stacks for posix-thread programs.

2013-03-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: pstack Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, pstack on amd64 at least fails to generate stacks of any threads in a process except the main thread. This is fairly unfortunate, as one of the main goals of pstack is to generate a quick snapshot of a program in

Bug#702558: pstack: Pstack fails (as documented) to generate stacks for posix-thread programs.

2013-03-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
thank you I am a bts newb, so apologies for any transgressions. There are any number of possible resolution paths. 1 - replace pstack binary with shellscript around gdb as RHEL has done I don't see the point of doing this. Depending on gdb would ruin the purpose. I think pstack is

Bug#408634: mrxvt terminfo file

2010-09-19 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 03:24:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Hi, some time ago you requested? the addition of an mrxvt terminfo entry to ncurses-term. This has been done upstream on 2007-10-20, and on 2010-02-06 the description was updated and an mrxvt-256color entry added. I think the

Bug#573117: angband: Old/Unreadable savefile keeps game from loading

2010-03-09 Thread Joshua Rodman
I'm not part of the debian project, but for some reason I'm on the list of people mailed regarding this package. Historically, angband files were stored in such a way that they could not be modified by the user, to avoid cheating. The program was setuid or possibly setgid games, snd the

Bug#550200: (no subject)

2009-10-30 Thread Joshua Rodman
Just installed udev. Failed. Now the whole upgrade process is broken. My kernel is supplied by debian. How is this bug resolved? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#550200: your mail

2009-10-30 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:45:22AM -0700, Joshua Rodman wrote: Just installed udev. Failed. Now the whole upgrade process is broken. My kernel is supplied by debian. How is this bug resolved? Insult to injury: i cannot install a new kernel because udev is in broken state, so

Bug#533099: xorg: compose key / multi key ignored after 7.3+18

2009-06-14 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.4+3 Severity: normal The compose key, where one presses a single dead key, then a sequence of characters, has stopped functioning in the 1.6.2 RC versions of X.org The compose key, also called MULTI_KEY allows sequences such as: compose ' e - e accent ague compose /

Bug#481391: cmake should not depend on emacs-common

2009-02-27 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:41:44PM +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote: Hello, 2009 m. February 27 d., Friday, Joshua Rodman ra: I use cmake. I don't use emacs. cmake should not force install of other packages for optional features. Moreover, since I do not use emacs, there's no way I

Bug#481391: cmake should not depend on emacs-common

2009-02-27 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:46:38PM +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote: Hello, 2009 m. February 27 d., Friday, Joshua Rodman ra: If the emacs feature of cmake must depend upon emacs-common, then the correct solution is to break this feature into cmake-emacs-whatever, recommend

Bug#481391: cmake should not depend on emacs-common

2009-02-26 Thread Joshua Rodman
This bug has been resolved incorrectly. I use cmake. I don't use emacs. cmake should not force install of other packages for optional features. Moreover, since I do not use emacs, there's no way I have a use for emacs-common or the emacs syntax/indent file. Suggests: or Recommends: would be

Bug#461507: angband: please make 3.0.6 scrolling behaviour optional

2008-01-19 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 07:55:36PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:50:46PM -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: The new scrolling behaviour of 3.0.6 where the maps is automatically scrolled when the player is more than 1/4 away from the centre is extremely annoying to me

Bug#461507: angband: please make 3.0.6 scrolling behaviour optional

2008-01-19 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:04:09PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:59:38AM -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: If keeping the character centered at all times is sufficiently non-irritating then set center_player on, = for options, 2 for display. If you really want to be able

Bug#461507: angband: please make 3.0.6 scrolling behaviour optional

2008-01-18 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:44:33PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: angband Version: 1:3.0.6-4 Severity: wishlist The new scrolling behaviour of 3.0.6 where the maps is automatically scrolled when the player is more than 1/4 away from the centre is extremely annoying to me. In

Bug#436336: Ugh, incorrect problem description.

2007-09-04 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 08:43:20AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: 2) After launching X, the virtual terminals will never correctly display again, whether X is quit normally or whether Ctrl-Alt-FX is used to access them. So you don't get any single crash because of this, right? Only

Bug#436336: Ugh, incorrect problem description.

2007-08-07 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 08:43:20AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: 2) After launching X, the virtual terminals will never correctly display again, whether X is quit normally or whether Ctrl-Alt-FX is used to access them. So you don't get any single crash because of this, right? Only

Bug#436336: Ugh, incorrect problem description.

2007-08-06 Thread Joshua Rodman
I have started encounter two new fun behaviors at once. 1) Wine OpenGL applications crash X, producing the symptoms described above. 2) After launching X, the virtual terminals will never correctly display again, whether X is quit normally or whether Ctrl-Alt-FX is used to access them. Advice

Bug#413829: Acknowledgement (p7zip creates directories world-writable in most situations)

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Rodman
Err all that stuff about world-readable directories by default was supposed to say world-writable. oops. -josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#368898: Apt reliably segfaults when reading package index

2007-03-07 Thread Joshua Rodman
apt reliably segfaults at present on my i686 system with apt 0.6.46.4, eg: Ign file: apt-build Release.gpg Get:1 file: apt-build Release [89B] Ign file: apt-build/main Packages Get:2 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing Release.gpg [189B] Get:3 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu unstable

Bug#410174: Message apparrently emitted by libao

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua Rodman
reassign 410174 libao thanks Please ignore the bad attitude, programs spitting out unwanted text into my terminal applications make me seriously cranky. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:15:07AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:26 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:08:27AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:04 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: - The new machine uses the unproven intel

Bug#408554: From the developer -- Re: Filelight produces copious debug output on standard error

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
- Forwarded message from Max Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:32:27 + From: Max Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joshua Rodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Filelight produces copious

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:31:28AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 01:45 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: mesa 6.5.2-2 FTBFS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410118 I could copy the files in by hand but am afraid of making a mess I forget how

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:31:28AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 01:45 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: mesa 6.5.2-2 FTBFS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410118 I could copy the files in by hand but am afraid of making a mess I forget

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:53:28PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 03:33 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: Grah, I'm now almost certain I flubbed this part, since as you probably realize an error here will default to pulling in the usual suspects. Right. I can repeat my

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:23:14AM -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:53:28PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 03:33 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: Grah, I'm now almost certain I flubbed this part, since as you probably realize an error here

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-07 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:08:27AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:04 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: - The new machine uses the unproven intel i965 opengl stuff, although it is working fairly well in the main here (mostly there are probablems changing screen mode

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-07 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:15:07AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:26 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:08:27AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:04 -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: - The new machine uses the unproven intel

Bug#408908: default install attempt of heimdal-kdc results in kstart error

2007-02-06 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:12:17PM +1100, Brian May wrote: jrodman == jrodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jrodman I do not think simply installing a package without prior jrodman configuration should result in an error. Agreed. I am not able to reproduce this :-( Setting up

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-06 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:42:42PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: This could well be an intel/i810 driver bug, or a configuration error in same, or in my xft configuration. I do have the unfree fonts installed. Could you try unsinstalling the ttf-larabie* fonts ? I doubt this would change

Bug#409961: foobillard: Menu does not work, no text ever appears.

2007-02-06 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:24:30AM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:04:36PM -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: I'm also quite unsure of what the balls should look like. When I played it (successfullly) some time ago, the balls had images on them, such as stripes

Bug#408742: d-i: jmicron pata CD, g965, realtek 8168 + 2.6.18 kernel == failure

2007-01-28 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:18:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 02:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments/Problems: The boot cd was unable to get to an installation menu because it could not access the CDROM via the JMicron PATA interface. Even were that

Bug#408631: Acknowledgement (mrxvt-full: Number of available profiles is unclear 5 or 4?)

2007-01-27 Thread Joshua Rodman
reassign 408631 mrxvt thanks Sorry, brainfart making up mrxvt-full in corrolary to vim or something. Didn't notice the errors warning me off. Here's the info that should have been autoprovided if I wasn't so boneheaded. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT

Bug#408632: Screwed up on this one too -- Re: 408632 - mrxvt built with DEBUG_X

2007-01-27 Thread Joshua Rodman
reassign 408632 mrxvt thanks Sorry, brainfart making up mrxvt-full in corrolary to vim or something. Didn't notice the errors warning me off. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to

Bug#408634: ncurses-term: Please add mrxvt terminfo file

2007-01-27 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:08:19PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:30:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: ncurses-term Version: 5.5-5 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** As a user of the mrxvt tabbed rxvt variant,

Bug#406441: seconded - a more detailed description appreciated

2007-01-16 Thread Joshua Rodman
I especially feel it would be worth clarifying this packages, as a web search for keyutils merely points to the source tarballs at http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keyutils/ The most information I could find was http://lwn.net/Articles/148948/ this linux kernel mailing list post/thread, which

Bug#398228: mpg123-oss-3dnow dummy package does not pull in mpg123 if mpg321 is installed

2006-11-12 Thread Joshua Rodman
Subject: mpg123-oss-3dnow dummy package does not pull in mpg123 if mpg321 is installed Package: mpg123-oss-3dnow Version: 0.61-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** mpg123-oss-3dnow was once a binary package which provided a 3dnow optimized version of mpg123. This

Bug#393845: libglib2.0-0: glib error logging facilities provide no filtering or redirection

2006-10-18 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:45:59AM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote: severity 393845 wishlist forwarded 393845 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362749 stop Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2006, Joshua Rodman wrote: glib and libraries based on glib provide logging facilities with levels

Bug#393845: libglib2.0-0: glib error logging facilities provide no filtering or redirection

2006-10-17 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.10.3-3 Severity: normal glib and libraries based on glib provide logging facilities with levels of severity for problems. However, they do not provide any means to filter or reduce nuisance messages at runtime. The net result is programs which use glib or its

Bug#393844: libglib2.0-0: glib logging facilities do not provide filtering or redirection

2006-10-17 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.10.3-3 Severity: normal glib provides logging facilities which are primarily used for logging of coding errors, eg. g_warning( -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#393844: Acknowledgement (libglib2.0-0: glib logging facilities do not provide filtering or redirection)

2006-10-17 Thread Joshua Rodman
close Please close this bug, someone installed joe on my system, changing the default editor, leading to confusion and accidental submission. Maybe reportbug should not default to sending on carriage return (which I sent when the terminal was blank). Oh, enough sob story. Sorry, just close

Bug#386814: closed by Stephan A Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#386814: fixed in uae 0.8.25-2)

2006-10-16 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 04:20:03PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Source: uae Source-Version: 0.8.25-2 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of uae, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: uae_0.8.25-2.diff.gz to

Bug#386814: debian uae 0.8.25 fails to boot roms in any configuration

2006-09-10 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: uae Version: 0.8.25-1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** I had been using uae across the earlier 0.8.22-1 version and more recently the 0.8.23-DATE versions from richard drummond with success. Recently UAE in unstable was updated to 0.8.25, so I updated

Bug#383713: gcc-4.1: man should deliver information, not error

2006-09-10 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: gcc-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-11 Followup-For: Bug #383713 man gcc delivers the following result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man gcc man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz is a dangling symlink No manual entry for gcc See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not

Bug#372724: Acknowledgement (dbus-daemon sessions are launched and never exit)

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua Rodman
The specific culprit has been identified. liferea's launch script is firing off 'dbus-launch', every time it is run. Twice. I'll leave it up to the dbus experts to decide if dbus could be configured to limit the mortality of the dbus-daemons launched in this fashion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#372733: liferea: Liferea launches *two* copies of dbus on start; they never exit.

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: liferea Followup-For: Bug #364084 Version: 1.0.10-1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 *** Please type your report below this line *** The liferea launch script contains the following text:

Bug#372733: liferea: Liferea launches *two* copies of dbus on start; they never exit.

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 08:13:01PM +0200, Lars Lindner wrote: On 6/11/06, Joshua Rodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: liferea Followup-For: Bug #364084 Version: 1.0.10-1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60

Bug#372733: liferea: Liferea launches *two* copies of dbus on start; they never exit.

2006-06-11 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Lars Lindner wrote: Yes, no hanging processes. This originally built up over the course of 2 months, when I noticed I had aroudn 24 useless dbus-daemon proceses, none with any parent. I can assure you liferea had only one process. Here is

Bug#325876: alsa-utils requires python-minimal, undesirable

2006-05-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
This bug requested alsa-utils not to depend upon python, since it is of large size. The ability to install using python-minimal seems a useful thing. However, the trade to python-minimal means that alsa-utils pulls in the undesired python-minimal on my system in addition to python, which I

Bug#325876: alsa-utils requires python-minimal, undesirable

2006-05-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:30:14PM -0700, jrodman wrote: However, the trade to python-minimal means that alsa-utils pulls in the undesired python-minimal on my system in addition to python, which I already have installed. Hmm, it seems i failed to understand the nature of python-minimal. I

Bug#346030: fnord: Consider defaulting mime-type to application/octet-stream, not text/plain

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: fnord Version: 1.10-2 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Several httpds, thttpd, fnord, and others default to type text/plain if the file extension is not in a short compiled-in fixed list. The use of a compiled in list is a good idea for purposes of

Bug#345823: apt: Key error at year turnover resembles security problem, and may represent one

2006-01-04 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:01:35AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Fwiw, the Release.gpg file contains two signatures now, both one with the 2005 key and the 2006 key, to have a short transition period. The archive still validates with the 2005 key, which isn't expired yet, and I think APT

Bug#345823: apt: Key error at year turnover resembles security problem, and may represent one

2006-01-03 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: apt Version: 0.6.43 Severity: normal Since the year has turned over, apt-get update now produces the error: [...] Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not

Bug#330827: IP vetting is weak, allowing targetted DoS via usernames

2005-10-03 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:04:20AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Hi Joshua, Thank you for you feedback. If you have a moment could you please give a try to the fixed revision. I've placed in changelog entry which states that it is necessary to update config file to have the breach closed

Bug#330827: IP vetting is weak, allowing targetted DoS via usernames

2005-10-03 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:24:09PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Besides that regular users or sysadmins are not even supposed to tune failregex to have basic functionality to be performed. Me (and the upstream) author are going to incorporate or at least include in the package more of the

Bug#330827: IP vetting is weak, allowing targetted DoS via usernames

2005-09-29 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.5.2-4 Severity: grave fail2ban's approach to identifying an IP address in a login failure line is to scan the line for all IP addresses. Since it is possible to generate false logins from accounts such as 10.2.28.2, it is possible to force fail2ban to block access

Bug#330827: IP vetting is weak, allowing targetted DoS via usernames

2005-09-29 Thread Joshua Rodman
Thank you for raising the issue. Indeed that is a grave problem. Unfortunately upstream author is away for a week or two, thus I will try to resolve the issue on my own. I think that I will simply incorporate regex for IPs inside failregex config options, thus IP addresses will not be

Bug#291766: undesired start -- I'm having a related restart problem

2005-09-08 Thread Joshua Rodman
I'm not truly clear on whether my experiences are truly a result of xprint or the underlying Debian facilities. xprint has ended up on my debian machine from time to time, without ever directly requesting the package. This is fine, and not xprint's problem. However, xprint as an unpleasant (to

Bug#323505: gphoto2 does not report permissions problems when accessing usb filesystem

2005-08-16 Thread Joshua Rodman
Subject: gphoto2 does not report permissions problems when accessing usb filesystem Package: gphoto2 Version: 2.1.5-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When running gphoto2 to scan or access USB-based cameras, the filesystem under /proc/bus/usb is accessed. By

Bug#323505: Acknowledgement (gphoto2 does not report permissions problems when accessing usb filesystem)

2005-08-16 Thread Joshua Rodman
Note, submitted upstream to gphoto sourceforge tracker as #1261583. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1261583group_id=8874atid=108874 -josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#302456: skippy: Skippy incorrectly claims HOME environment variable not set

2005-03-31 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: skippy Version: 0.5.0-3 Severity: minor Speculatively installed skippy from weekly news comment. Haven't yet seen it work, but was waylaid but this output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ skippy WARNING: $HOME not set, not loading config. $HOME is certainly set and in the environment, and

Bug#302415: A list?

2005-03-31 Thread Joshua Rodman
As clumsy as it is, a list of known programs to typically bind such keys might be useful. In practice I bet this is a bunch of window managers and one or two key binding daemons that people use for their MULTIMEDIA keys. -josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#297341: should be possible to install synaptic without sudo

2005-02-28 Thread Joshua Rodman
Package: synaptic Version: 0.53.4-6 Severity: minor Currently synaptic depends upon the package gksu, which due to a misfeature requires sudo. Since sudo is not appropriate for the majority of single user or single admin machines, synaptic should not require sudo. Coming from another

Bug#293830: sudo is undesirable

2005-02-26 Thread Joshua Rodman
sudo allows user-passwords to work for root-priveledge actions. This is a similar problem to suid root binaries, and must be only applied in very sparing cases where the code is very carefully analyzed, or else you have local root equivalence for all users. Unfortunately, /etc/sudoers is a very

Bug#293830: sudo is undesirable

2005-02-26 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:37:59PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2005, Joshua Rodman wrote: Unfortunately, /etc/sudoers is a very poorly designed file with a confusing and difficult syntax. Additionally, in order to provide users with reasonable flexibility