Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

Christian Perrier Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>, 38909@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 12 May 2005 07:31:51 +0200


retitle 38909 [TO CLOSE 20050512] add shellutils grave bug to regression test suite 
thanks

> Something went wrong with debhelper or something like that, and the
> result was that /bin/su ended up having mode 755 instead of 4755.
> Oops!  So suddenly, /bin/su didn't work.  The suggestion in this bug
> report was to have a regression test within the package build to check
> that the permissions of /bin/su were correct before finishing the
> package build.


As Nicolas mentioned in another post, this is the purpose of
unstable....which didn't exist at the time this bug report was
written.

Hence, I propose just closing this as there is no real issue.