Review request: svgalib

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jul 1 19:32:39 UTC 2005


Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said: 
> Differences from the last try:
> - Upstream has reintroduced suid root use in 1.9.20 as an alternative to
>   the helper-kernel-module. This allows us to build a sane (kernel
>   module free) package of the 1.9 (devel) versions. The 1.4 (stable)
>   versions haven't seen an update in ages and don't support most modern
>   cards -> Update to the latest upstream devel release 1.9.21 .

Um, *ewww*. Excesses of setuid binaries just seems bad.

Bill




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