Re: Bugs?

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:13:48AM -0400, Lee Winter wrote:
> Got a dell 5400 workstation configured fully (8 cores, 32gb RAM, 160gb fast
> disk & 1.0tb slow disk) and I netinstalled debian Bookworm 12.10.0 on it.
> I also got the 20 DVDs with 92.5gb of Source packages.  The machine seems
> OK, but I am finding some  [problem]s.
> 
> [A1] is that netinstall left /etc/sudoers missing and /etc/sudoers.d/README
> empty -- there are no users at all. But that README file contains a strong
> recommendation for using visudo, which no longer exists.
> 

Hi Lee,

When you originally set up the system, did you input a password for root?

If you *didn't* set up a root user / left the root user with a blank 
password, then sudo should be installed and configured for the first
user to use sudo. If not, then there's maybe a bug.

If you reboot via rescue mode, you can set a password for root.

If you don't wish to do this, then you may be able to drop to a root shell
and install sudo

Visudo is installed with the sudo package. If that install fails for 
whatever reason, then you won't have visudo.

Hope this helps,

Andy
(amacater@debian.org)

> [A2] is that visudo is missing even though lots of doc still insists that
> it be should be used.  I even looked for it in my SOURCE packages and with
> apt install.  But I found nothing.
> 
> url = "
> https://blog.usro.net/2024/11/how-to-build-a-debian-package-from-source-a-step-by-step-guide
> "
> 
> [B] is that the doc in the url above wants to apt install some thing called
> linti.  But in reality there is no such thing.
> 
> [C] is that same doc in the url above wants to apt install source
> <package_name>.  So it wants to get a new copy of the source package.  But
> I already have a copy; i just need to know where to put it?
> 
> How should I report these problems?