Bug#276419: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#276419: su appends the positional args to the command line

[Martin Quinson]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:19:34AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > As it breaks the specifications of Linux Standard Base, I don't.  Please,
> > don't revert to a broken su.  That would make Debian's su different from
> > any other su in UNIX-like operating systems and restrict it to a very
> > small subset of invocations it will serve.
> 
> Actually, we did revert to a broken su.

I think that this is a bad thing (TM). Hopefully you'll change your mind and
help debian getting rid of this long standing bug :)


I don't feel the need for overkilling mecanism here. I feel that Helmut
perfectly demonstrated at least twice why this bug has to be fixed. I
believe that the patches to packages relying on the old broken behaviour are
both quite rare (debian only) and quite simple to fix.

With sarge just released, it looks like a perfect time to go for this
transition. C++ ABI transition seems faaar much intrusive (and somehow
discutable, but it must be my anti-c++ religious position) to me than this
*fix*.

I'd say that we need to summarize the rationnal and how to adapt packages to
the new, fixed behaviour on, say, 100 lines, post it to
debian-devel-announce under the title "su behaviour transition" or so, wait
2 weeks, and upload a fixed version.

If you guys(*) agree, I'll try to do the summary and send it myself. I'm
still in vacations, but I'm really a geek, I'm affraid.

Bye, Mt.

(*): hehe. Forget about "les gars", it's just like "tutoyer".
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