to summerize my experiences with the visudo bug so far, 1. sudo will not build unless umask is something other than 000 even though /etc/login.defs says the default should be 022. I set the umask to 002 and 022 in a normal users's .profile and on both occasions sudo builds. 2. use-flock-on-hurd.diff is not in debian/patches/series file so it was never applied 3. Even if it was in series, use-flock-on-hurd.diff says to change configure.in which no longer exists. 4. I manually changed configure.ac from what the original patch said and sudo builds, I installed the resulting deb file and now visudo works!
So now, what is the PREFERRED way to generate the patch and send it upsteam?
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