Bug#218060: dpkg: start-stop-daemon now does chdir("/")

[Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.18
Severity: important

I was asked about a problem with starting ipppd, where it suddenly
couldn't find its options file anymore.  This I tracked down to
start-stop-daemon now always doing a chdir("/") before the exec of the
program.

This change of behaviour sucks, and is not documented in the manpage
nor in the changelog.  I guess it's a side-effect of the new -d option?

Please either document this in BOLD letters, or remove the unasked
chdir to root; I can imagine that this may lead to many other problems,
without offering significant benefit (if any).  I now have to
change the invocation of start-stop-daemon to add -d, making it unusable
with old versions.


Thanks,
Paul Slootman

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wurtel 2.4.22 #1 Mon Sep 8 19:54:25 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                       1.10.15    a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                         2.3.2-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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