Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?

2011-08-14 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear all, su-to-root is recommended by Lintian, but still not usable by default in Debian, causing confusion for users, and strange situations such as bug [1] and [2]. For memory, 2 alternative solutions were proposed in 2008's discussion [3] : - move su-to-root into debianutils where it would

Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?

2011-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
yannubu...@gmail.com yannubu...@gmail.com writes: For memory, 2 alternative solutions were proposed in 2008's discussion [3] : - move su-to-root into debianutils where it would always be available, - or introducing an xdg-* utility into xdg-utils that does the same thing any update ? The

Bug#492493: When will su-to-root be available by default in Debian ?

2011-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: yannubu...@gmail.com yannubu...@gmail.com writes: For memory, 2 alternative solutions were proposed in 2008's discussion [3] : - move su-to-root into debianutils where it would always be available, - or introducing an xdg-* utility into xdg-utils that does