I use a script written by Francois Gouget called 'sux' which does as 'su' but for free take care of the X authentification stuff. I remember that François was looking for a place to add it. Perhaps a revamped debianutils would be a good host. Christophe On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:17:31PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:43:32PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > Debianutils has three important bugs, 20 normal bugs, a couple of minor > > bugs and a bunch of wishlist bugs. > > > > It's last maintainer upload was over a year ago. It has gotten about one > > upload a year for the last three years. > > > > I'd like to adopt the package and bring it into a better state. > > > > Guy Maor, would you allow me, or would you rather have somebody else pick > > it up? The way it is now is not good at all, IMNSHO. > > I have a small collection of Debian-specific utilities which have been > looking for a home. I do not want to package them separately, as they are > very small and belong in a collection. debianutils seemed like the right > place, but from looking at its bug list, which includes several submissions > of new tools, I didn't bother submitting them. > > At that time, I was told that the maintainer was still out there, and still > had claim to the package, though he was not able to give it proper > attention. > > In short, I am also interested in improving this package, or if that is not > feasible, to create a new package with precisely the same purpose but a > different name (and perhaps even including all of the current contents of > debianutils). > > -- > - mdz > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. --Ellen Perry Berkeley
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