Bug#637050: Package perl-suid v5.12.x is not available in repositories [sid] and [experimental]

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:46:13AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> On 08.08.2011 11:53, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Yes, this is correct; suidperl has been removed upstream, so it has
> > gone from the Debian pacakge too. Any package using suidperl in Debian
> > should now have a bug open against it, if it hasn't already been fixed
> > to not use suidperl.
> > 
> > It's regrettable that this functionality was removed, but there was no
> > interest in maintaining it upstream, so its removal was inevitable.
> 
> Dominic, thanks for you explanations.
> 
> What are the proposed workarounds? E.g. in my case I need to run few
> Perl scripts under root (at least to elevate to "disk" group), which are
> called by Cacti grapher to collect S.M.A.R.T HDD information.
> 
> Is /etc/sudoers the right way for that?

There are many possible answers to this question, and I don't want
to go too far down the router of offering general advice on a bug
report, but sudo is certainly one possible option. You might find
the mailing list thread at[1] which discusses the removal interesting.

Dominic.

[1] <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/234561>

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