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Re: Preparing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3



On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:44:11PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 
>  2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead into data loss,
>     data corruption or an overly broken system.
> 

Note, there will be some 2.1.3-18 glibc packages coming this weekend.
They fix a pretty serious bug where root cannot use ldd on a program
that is sgid. It works for suid applications though. This stands to
break package builds as root, because dpkg-shlibdeps requires ldd.

Ben

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