Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:55:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of shadow should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building when something's going wrong. Even if it's called unstable, the day I won't be

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Christian Perrier
retitle 38909 [TO CLOSE 20050512] add shellutils grave bug to regression test suite thanks Something went wrong with debhelper or something like that, and the result was that /bin/su ended up having mode 755 instead of 4755. Oops! So suddenly, /bin/su didn't work. The suggestion in this

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:14:37AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: I had a look at this bug. It seems to me that su was once installed not-suid root, and the submitter forwarded a mail from an user who proposed to add a check for this in the testsuite (see ltp-* packages). I don't know who

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:31:51AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: retitle 38909 [TO CLOSE 20050512] add shellutils grave bug to regression test suite thanks Something went wrong with debhelper or something like that, and the result was that /bin/su ended up having mode 755 instead of

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Christian Perrier
I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of shadow should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building when something's going wrong. Even if it's called unstable, the day I won't be able to log onto my machine for one whole day, I'll get *mad*. One