Other Debian news

Christian Perrier reports on proposed changes to su. "As reported in #276419, su in the login Debian package doesn't permit to specify options to the invoked shell and doesn't respect quoted arguments. We plan to revert this behavior and follow su's documentation and other implementations."

Martin Schulze has announced the return of the packages.debian.org service. "This service had to move to a new machine after it consumed too much I/O traffic due to archive reorganisation."

Martin Schulze also looks at the contents of the Debian backup server. "The backup of a resource is more than just a copy of the current state. It consists of 10 to 100 versions, representing several past days. Each day a new copy is created on the backup system. Copies older than the configured number of copies get purged."

This Bits from the kernel team takes a look back at what already happened after the sarge release and what you should expect for etch.

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