On Mar 4 13:41, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There's a backward incompatible change in this release which is not > > mentioned in the release notes. The slogin symlink as well as the > > slogin.1 man page are not created anymore by the Makefile. > > > > This change potentially breaks lots and lots of aliases, shell scripts, > > and GUI keyboard shortcuts. > > This may also be a serious security issue! > [...] > (IMHO, there should be a dummy script for "slogin" that > warns users that they no longer get what they expect; > it's better to break things instead of silently compromising > security.) Please, no. Removing the script so the downstream distros can provide it by themselves is ok, but providing a broken script is worse, IMHO. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer Red Hat
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