Your message dated Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:47:10 +0000
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and subject line Bug#474197: fixed in sudo 1.6.9p15-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #474197,
regarding sudo: ignores configured editor preferences
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Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.9p9-1
Severity: wishlist
>From the changelog:
> * make default editor be /usr/bin/vi instead of /usr/bin/editor, so that
> the command 'visudo' invokes a vi variant by default as documented,
> closes: #388659
And as a result, non-vi-users who upgrade from Etch and then run
"sudo -e /etc/fstab" will get a hideous surprise: instead of opening
it in their favourite text-editor (the one that worked yesterday),
instead it'll chuck it into something so notoriously unintuitive
that they'll be lucky if they can even get vi to let go of it.
If there are vi users out there who don't have the /usr/bin/editor
symlink configured to point at their preferred sourcecode-mungeing
utility, that's not something to punish everybody else for.
The reporter of bug #388659 should have been informed that there are
already several similarly named commands in Debian (vidir, vipw,
vigr...) that don't default to vi in this rude fashion, which
demonstrates that it isn't reasonable to expect such behaviour from
one named "visudo".
It's true that the option of using the alternatives system wasn't
available for the authors of the upstream documentation, and is
therefore not mentioned in the man page; but extra distro-specific
integration features like this are exactly why I installed the
packaged version of sudo instead of using upstream tarballs in the
first place.
Besides, "man visudo" still doesn't actually tell Debian users how
the visudo binary on their system is going to behave, since they
don't know whether it was compiled --with-env-editor. For that they
have to read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/sudo/.
Please, please revert this change and amend README.Debian to
document it as an extra Debian-specific feature, along with the
others it already covers. If you want help with that, I'm happy to
volunteer some assistance as long as I don't have to edit it in vi!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
sudo recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: sudo
Source-Version: 1.6.9p15-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sudo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
sudo-ldap_1.6.9p15-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p15-2_i386.deb
sudo_1.6.9p15-2.diff.gz
to pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p15-2.diff.gz
sudo_1.6.9p15-2.dsc
to pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p15-2.dsc
sudo_1.6.9p15-2_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p15-2_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated sudo package)
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:38:56 -0600
Source: sudo
Binary: sudo sudo-ldap
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.6.9p15-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
sudo - Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
sudo-ldap - Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
Closes: 474197 475821
Changes:
sudo (1.6.9p15-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* revert the fix for 388659 such that visudo once again defaults to using
/usr/bin/editor. I was always ambivalent about this change, it has caused
more confusion and frustration than it cured, and I find Justin's line of
reasoning persuasive. Update the man page source to reflect this choice
and the related use of --with-env-editor. Closes: #474197.
* patch from Petter Reinholdtsen to improve init.d, closes: #475821
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