retitle 628042 no longer suid Perl script support thanks This can be seen with:
#!/usr/bin/perl -T print "$< $>\n"; On 2011-05-27 11:33:57 +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). First I didn't see it because I upgraded many packages. Moreover this could have meant that suidperl were moved in the perl package. > 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. Yes, this would be a suitable place, in particular because apt-listchanges would have displayed the change *before* the upgrade, and the admin/user can cancel the upgrade. This lets the admin/user do whatever workaround is needed before the upgrade. I've done some search. In the announce, the reference to the thread can be given: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/12/msg142839.html and it would be nice to point to some howto. The thread describes 2 solutions: sudo (but this is not always possible and taint mode isn't necessarily enabled automatically) and a C wrapper (using execv(), I assume). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
