Re: Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Whatever you choose to do, you need to take care of partial upgrade.
Not across released stable versions! Since when do we support
stable/stable+1 mixed systems?
Besides, depends/pre-depends and conflicts should be more than enough if
done right. New shadow would conflict with ALL packages that do not support
the new syntax (yes, it is a pain to list them. Maybe conflicting with *ALL*
packages that use su is a better idea). And all updated packages (that use
su) MUST depend/predepend on the new package providing su.
Yes, that would be a "su transition". Urgh.
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