Re: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Bdale Garbee wrote:

> The version of sudo in sid/experimental has switched to treating the
> sudoers file as a standard Debian "conffile" instead of the former
> ad-hoc approach to managing the file.
>
> Given that there's no way for the sudo package to know what changes you
> might have made to the existing sudoers file, I see no viable option
> other than the prompting.

Cc-ing debian-dpkg for help.

An ideal solution would involve telling dpkg about the md5sum for the
previously shipped version somehow, but I'm not aware of any
interface for that.

Thanks for the explanation.
Jonathan