Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:55:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of shadow > > should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building when > > something's going wrong. Even if it's called "unstable", the day I

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Christian Perrier
> I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of shadow > should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building when > something's going wrong. Even if it's called "unstable", the day I won't be > able to log onto my machine for one whole day, I'll get *mad*.

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:31:51AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > retitle 38909 [TO CLOSE 20050512] add shellutils grave bug to regression test > suite > thanks > > > Something went wrong with debhelper or something like that, and the > > result was that /bin/su ended up having mode 755 inste

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:14:37AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > I had a look at this bug. > > It seems to me that su was once installed not-suid root, and the submitter > forwarded a mail from an user who proposed to add a check for this in the > testsuite (see ltp-* packages). > > I don't kn

Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-11 Thread Christian Perrier
retitle 38909 [TO CLOSE 20050512] add shellutils grave bug to regression test suite thanks > Something went wrong with debhelper or something like that, and the > result was that /bin/su ended up having mode 755 instead of 4755. > Oops! So suddenly, /bin/su didn't work. The suggestion in this

Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:39:21PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > The bug log for #38909 gives absolutely no serious explanation of > *what* the bug is in login. > > I blindly guess this is something reported about "su", but what? > > With no more information about it, I think we will just clo

Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

2005-05-11 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 38909 moreinfo retitle 38909 [TO CLOSE 20050511] add shellutils grave bug to regression test suite thanks The bug log for #38909 gives absolutely no serious explanation of *what* the bug is in login. I blindly guess this is something reported about "su", but what? With no more information