Bug#400632: x11-common should not ship a SUID root binary

2008-02-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 18:23:14 -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > The easy and obvious fix is to just ship this with xserver-xorg instead. To > be honest, I'm not sure why this ended up in x11-common instead of here. > It used to be in xserver-common, which was removed and folded in x11-common at so

Bug#400632: x11-common: should not ship a SUID root binary

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Brice, > tags 400632 +wontfix > thank you > We are not going to remove the SUID bit because of this. The actual > problem here is: why do you need x11-common installed on this system? > Probably because of complex dependencies between all X packages? The > upcoming xbase-clients split might ma

Bug#400632: x11-common should not ship a SUID root binary

2008-02-04 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:53:35PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > Package: x11-common > Severity: serious > tags 400632 -wontfix > > Greetings, > > The setuid usr/bin/X binary should not be shipped with x11-common > because it's not *needed* for X11 clients. That by itself is a good > enough reas