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Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink



Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > general           28850  gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs [0]  (debian-devel@lists.debian.org)
> 
> Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs
> as root should check if it uses gettext, and if so recompile it with
> the latest gettext installed. Please not that this is not necessary for
> programs that use the gettext from libc6.

Could a lintian check be written to check for this, perhaps?

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see shy jo


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