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Re: Should su-to-root be shipped in a separate package?



Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> > And about its inclusion on debianutils, according to its description[0]
> > su-to-root seems not to fit there. Of course the description can be
> > changed for su-to-root's inclusion.
>
> su-to-root is sort of a "sensible-su" similar to the sensible-browser,
> sensible-editor, and sensible-pager scripts already in debianutils.
> debianutils, among other things, holds some these sorts of scripts that
> are required by Policy, and it sounds like that's where we're heading with
> su-to-root.

Although I'm still not very much convinced by debianutils' description (more 
specifically the  "installation scripts of Debian packages" part) I'm now 
CC'ing Clint Adams so he can hopefully express his POV together with Bill 
Allombert.

The whole thread is available for reading here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/19168

Sincerely,
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