Bug#50859: xfs: daemon runs as root

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 23:29:31 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> 
> This bug report asking for xfs to not run as root is flagged as
> release critical and keeps xfs from propagating into Lenny.  Are there
> anyone working on fixing this for Lenny?  There has been no comment
> from the maintainers since Julien Cristau changed the severity from
> wishlist to serious 2007-10-02.  Does this mean that the Debian X
> Strike Force agree that this bug need to be fixed before the x font
> server is allowed into Lenny?  A proposed solution was provided in
> 2000, but there has been no comment on the proposal since then.
> 
Yes, I think we shouldn't have xfs running as root in lenny.  I also
don't plan to work on this bug (because I mostly don't care about xfs)
other than applying patches, so unless someone does the work that means
not shipping xfs in lenny, IMO.

Cheers,
Julien