Bug#581946: kdelibs4c2a: perl-suid is going away with Perl 5.12

[Ana Guerrero <ana@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:51PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:21:26PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Package: kdelibs4c2a
> > Version: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3
> > Severity: minor
> > User: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: perl-5.12-transition
> > 
> > Perl 5.12 (currently in experimental) removed support for suidperl,
> > so the perl-suid Debian package is going away too.
> 
> If one believes
> 
> grep -r '#!/usr/bin/perl' .
> and
> debian/kdelibs4c2a.lintian
> 
> then the only suidperl script is
> 
> kio/misc/fileshareset
> 
> Searching for other references to this script finds a thread which ends
> with
> 
> <http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-03/msg00690.php> which isn't
> conclusive.
> 
> Couldn't find anything on <https://bugs.kde.org/>
> 
> Hopefully someone who's more familiar with the KDE project can do a bit
> more digging on this, perhaps filing a bug upstream?
>

Hi Dominic,

kdelibs4c2a, that is kdelibs from KDE3, is dead ustream
and we are trying actively to remove it from the archive.
See http://wiki.debian.org/kdelibs4c2aRemoval

Ana