Control: reassign -1 debian-policy On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 09:17:50PM -0600, LinuxChix SysAdmin wrote: > The use of "su - " in postinst is breaking package installs/upgrades only > when there are file(s) in /etc/profile.d. > > Details are in the two bug reports: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884955 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=875958 > > I do not know what other packages may use "su - " but would suggest that > this issue be documented in debconf-doc so maintainers/devs can avoid this. > If I should file this some place else, please let me know.
This doesn't seem to have anything much to do with debconf, which is a specific piece of technology commonly used in maintainer scripts rather than being documentation of how to write maintainer scripts in general. While it does seem worth writing maintainer scripts in a way that avoids this kind of problem, I think that probably belongs in the policy manual; I've reassigned your bug there. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
