Control: tags -1 + pending On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 18:43 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 02:32 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > On 2018-02-25 15:44, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > Control: tags -1 + confirmed > > > > > > On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 15:02 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > > > please allow the upgrade of nvidia-modprobe in stretch to a new > > > > upstream release matching the updated nvidia-graphics-drivers > > > > package. > > > > > > Please go ahead. > > > > That was uploaded yesterday, but I just uploaded another fix to sid > > that > > may be worthy to be fixed in stretch, too. > > > > nvidia-modprobe (a setuid root binary) stopped working for regular > > users > > since dash started dropping privileges if euid != uid (like bash > > has > > been doing for ages). The fix is a oneliner: call setuid(0) before > > forking modprobe to preserve permissions through the recursive > > shell > > and > > modprobe invocations needed by our modprobe configuration using > > install > > commands. > > > > The problem is reproducible in stretch if /bin/sh points to bash > > instead > > of dash. > > > > The incremental source debdiff is attached. > > That seems reasonable. > > > If that is acceptable, please reject 384.111-1~deb9u1 and I'll > > upload > > 384.111-2~deb9u1 instead. > > > > Feel free to upload the new package, we can sort out the earlier > upload > later. >
Uploaded and flagged for acceptance. Regards, Adam