On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:14PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to ask for a SRU for gksu. The changelog is here:
> 
> +gksu (1.9.3-1ubuntu2.1) edgy-proposed; urgency=low
> +
> +  * debian/patches/01_quote_escape.diff:
> +    - quote any " ' " charackters in the arguments so that it is 
> +      properly passed on to su/sudo (lp: #51419)
> +
> + -- Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:46:56
> +0200
> 
> The full debdiff:
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/4938156/gksu_1.9.3-1ubuntu2.1.debdiff
> 
> The problem here is that ' is used by gksu as a seperator but if a '
> is also found in the commandline it is not properly escaped
> there. This patches adds the required escaping. This currently breaks
> update-managers call to synaptic in the "it" locale.

If this is attempting to quote for the shell, it won't work.  Single quotes
can't be escaped with backslashes.

-- 
 - mdz

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"Install updates"-button only refreshes update list in it_IT environement
https://launchpad.net/bugs/51419

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