Bug#400632: x11-common: should not ship a SUID root binary
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:42:41AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 21:02:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > The problem is not that /usr/bin/X is suid-root. The problem is that
> > /usr/bin/X is now shipped in a package which is a dependency of *all* of the
> > X libraries, so you can no longer have a system with X clients only without
> > pulling in an extra suid binary you don't need.
> I can't see the reason why the X libraries (Pre-)Depend on x11-common.
> AFAICT the Pre-Dependency is needed for packages installing stuff in
> /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 to ensure that they are proper
> directories and not symlinks to /usr/X11R6. That doesn't apply to
> libx11-6 and friends.
That's fine with me if it can be resolved that way. I can't recall now any
reason for the runtime library packages to need this pre-depends, but it
seems reasonable to drop it at this point regardless.
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