This has now been fixed in Debian in nano 2.0.9-2.
Please sync nano 2.0.9-2 from Debian unstable into Jaunty. A debdiff is
attached for reference. Full changelog:
nano (2.0.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Yo me pago mis trajes" release.
* Upload to unstable.
* Bump Standards-Version to
** Changed in: nano (Debian)
Status: Unknown => New
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This is still a bug in 8.10 and 9.04 alpha.
** Changed in: nano (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #513443
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513443
** Also affects: nano (Debian) via
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The problem is that sudoedit invokes nano as a normal user, rather than
as root. So it is not good enough for nano to disable wrapping only
when running as root. That was kind of a braindead distinction anyway,
because there are plenty of files you might want to edit as a normal
user that are jus
Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?
** Changed in: nano (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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** Changed in: nano (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Ok, so it seems nano can't detect, for some reason, that it's running as
root when invoked via "sudoedit".
$ sudo nano foo
works as expected
$ sudoedit foo
doesn't
Does anyone have information on how sudoedit is different to sudo?
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Just verified it here. nano called from sudoedit is definitely not safe
on Dapper.
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