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

[Julian Gilbey]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:31:51AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 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.

The actual suggestion was to incorporate some regression testing into
this package: such a bug has occurred once and would be easy to check
for to prevent it from ever occurring again.  Hence the purpose of the
now-defunct debian-test package.

But if you want to close this bug, feel free to.

   Julian