On Sunday 10 of November 2013 18:57:22 Darrell Anderson wrote: > >to resolve bug report 853 is ready a patch that selects between > >"sudo su" > >and "su" depending on the build option WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND. > > > >But as we have noticed, also on Ubuntu is used > >WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND=OFF. > >This would mean that even Ubuntu would not be used "sudo". > > > >That's why I asked what solution to choose for Ubuntu packaging? > > > >1) Apply the patch and leave WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND=OFF > >2) Apply the patch, but change WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND=ON > >3) Make a separate build option WITH_SUDO_KONSOLE_BACKEND > > > >See: http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=853 > > I'm not an Ubuntu user but I'm fine with adding > WITH_SUDO_KONSOLE_BACKEND as a new option. > > Would the default be WITH_SUDO_KONSOLE_BACKEND=OFF, meaning sudo- > based disto packagers would have to explicitly change that option > to WITH_SUDO_KONSOLE_BACKEND=ON? > > Darrell > Yes, exactly what I wanted. If the new build option WITH_SUDO_KONSOLE_BACKEND will be added, it would default OFF and only distributions that use sudo will in packaging use ON. Slavek