util-linux (2.32-0.4) unstable; urgency=medium The util-linux implementation of /bin/su is now used, replacing the one previously supplied by src:shadow (shipped in login package), and bringing Debian in line with other modern distributions. The two implementations are very similar but have some minor differences (and there might be more that was not yet noticed ofcourse), e.g. - new 'su' (with no args, i.e. when preserving the environment) also preserves PATH and IFS, while old su would always reset PATH and IFS even in 'preserve environment' mode. - new 'su -' (creating new environment) will do just that, while old su would always preserve content of DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY environment variables. Set them as needed (but beware X doesn't give you any real privileges separation anyway if you can access an X server of another user). See pam_xauth(8) if you want to reconfigure pam for seamless xauth keys. - su '' (empty user string) used to give root, but now returns an error. - previously su only had one pam config, but now 'su -' is configured separately in /etc/pam.d/su-l. This file additionally invokes 'pam_keyinit' to revoke the session keyring. The first difference is probably the most user visible one. Doing plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -' is strongly recommended to always get a newly set up environment similar to a normal login. If you want to restore behaviour more similar to the previous one you can add 'ALWAYS_SET_PATH=yes' in /etc/default/su. -- Andreas Henriksson Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:52:22 +0200 util-linux (2.29.2-3) experimental; urgency=medium The cfdisk, fdisk and sfdisk utilities has been split out into a separate fdisk package. Any package needing these utilities should add a dependency on: fdisk | util-linux (<< 2.29.2-3~) (The second part of it makes the dependency also be fulfilled in case of stretch-backports and should be considered optional.) -- Andreas Henriksson Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:59:02 +0200 util-linux (2.29.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium The deprecated 'pg' utility is no longer shipped. (Please use either 'more' or 'less' instead.) The deprecated 'tunelp' utility is no longer shipped. (Parallell port printers are suspected to be extinct by now.) The deprecated 'line' utility is no longer shipped. (Please use the 'head' utility instead.) The deprecated 'tailf' utility is no longer shipped. (Please use 'tail -f' instead.) -- Andreas Henriksson Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:27:14 +0100 util-linux (2.25.1~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=medium This version adds a number of patches which again makes fsck available on non-linux architectures like kfreebsd. -- Andreas Henriksson Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:32:25 -0700 util-linux (2.25-1) experimental; urgency=medium The cytune command is no longer available since it has been removed upstream. Upstream Release Notes also includes these highlights: The "swapon --summary" output format is deprecated in favor of the "swapon --show[=]" that provides better control on output formatting. cfdisk(8): - the code been completely rewritten, now it uses libfdisk and libsmartcols, supports GPT, SUN, SGI and BSD disk labels - the command is no more based on CHS addressing WARNING! The fsck command is no longer built on non-linux. It relies on libmount, which needs porting. -- Andreas Henriksson Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:05:13 +0200 util-linux (2.24.2-1) experimental; urgency=low This is a major update which is long overdue. This release attempts to unify the work that has happened upstream with the work that has gone on in parallell in the Debian package. A few things are no longer shipped since they have been removed upstream: ddate - convert Gregorian dates to Discordian dates chkdupexe - report dangling symlinks and duplicately-named binaries -- Andreas Henriksson Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:00:48 +0200