On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:14PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask for a SRU for gksu. The changelog is here:
>
> +gksu (1.9.3-1ubuntu2.1) edgy-proposed; urgency=low
> +
> + * debian/patches/01_quote_escape.diff:
> + - quote any " ' " charackters in the arguments so that it is
> + properly passed on to su/sudo (lp: #51419)
> +
> + -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:46:56
> +0200
>
> The full debdiff:
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/4938156/gksu_1.9.3-1ubuntu2.1.debdiff
>
> The problem here is that ' is used by gksu as a seperator but if a '
> is also found in the commandline it is not properly escaped
> there. This patches adds the required escaping. This currently breaks
> update-managers call to synaptic in the "it" locale.
If this is attempting to quote for the shell, it won't work. Single quotes
can't be escaped with backslashes.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:14PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: patches/ 01_quote_ escape. diff: librarian. launchpad. net/4938156/ gksu_1. 9.3-1ubuntu2. 1.debdiff
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask for a SRU for gksu. The changelog is here:
>
> +gksu (1.9.3-1ubuntu2.1) edgy-proposed; urgency=low
> +
> + * debian/
> + - quote any " ' " charackters in the arguments so that it is
> + properly passed on to su/sudo (lp: #51419)
> +
> + -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:46:56
> +0200
>
> The full debdiff:
> http://
>
> The problem here is that ' is used by gksu as a seperator but if a '
> is also found in the commandline it is not properly escaped
> there. This patches adds the required escaping. This currently breaks
> update-managers call to synaptic in the "it" locale.
If this is attempting to quote for the shell, it won't work. Single quotes
can't be escaped with backslashes.
--
- mdz