Bug#628042: perl: file creation in suid Perl script no longer works

[Niko Tyni]

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.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org