Bug#637050: Package perl-suid v5.12.x is not available in repositories [sid] and [experimental]

[Dmitry Katsubo]

On 08.08.2011 11:53, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Yes, this is correct; suidperl has been removed upstream, so it has
> gone from the Debian pacakge too. Any package using suidperl in Debian
> should now have a bug open against it, if it hasn't already been fixed
> to not use suidperl.
> 
> It's regrettable that this functionality was removed, but there was no
> interest in maintaining it upstream, so its removal was inevitable.

Dominic, thanks for you explanations.

What are the proposed workarounds? E.g. in my case I need to run few
Perl scripts under root (at least to elevate to "disk" group), which are
called by Cacti grapher to collect S.M.A.R.T HDD information.

Is /etc/sudoers the right way for that?

-- 
With best regards,
Dmitry