clone 628042 -1 reassign -1 release-notes retitle -1 release-notes: document that suidperl is no longer available in wheezy thanks
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 03:04:49PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:33:57AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > Upstream removed suidperl support in 5.12. I think we should indeed > > have announced this better (although you will have seen the perl-suid > > package being removed). We don't seem to have a NEWS.Debian file in > > the perl package; I wonder if this would be a suitable place to put > > this information or whether it should eventually go somewhere like the > > release notes for wheezy. > > My initial feeling is that this is overkill. The perl package is installed > on all Debian systems (well, 99.45% according to popcon), and I expect > that only a very tiny minority cares about suid Perl scripts. > > If we could restrict this to only those who have perl-suid installed, it > would be OK-ish IMO, but I can't see any way to achieve that except a > transitional non-functional perl-suid package, which seems backwards. > > I think README.Debian and release notes may have to do. Maybe we should > bring this up on debian-devel to get other opinions. Yes, I agree that this only affects a small minority of users and so we shouldn't have a noisy news item. I've added a note to README.Debian and cloned this bug to release-notes, and am CCing this to -devel for any other opinions. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
