Re: shellutils grave bug
> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Four or five bug reports have just been submitted because the i386
> > port of shellutils (just uploaded by the autobuilder, I would guess
> > -- haven't checked) has a non-setuid-root su.
>
> Sorry, about this. FWIW, I do test install all daemon built base
> packages (regardless of architecture) before uploading them, I just
> didn't catch this (and wouldn't, I never/rarely run an unsudoed su).
Don't worry about it -- I just wanted to announce my intention to fix
it so there weren't 10 developers all wasting their time doing the
same thing. It was weird, 'cos the source code was the same as in
slink, and yet it failed. Took some thinking about ;)
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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