sudo (1.7.4p4-2) unstable; urgency=low The HOME and MAIL environment variables are now reset based on the target user's password database entry when the env_reset sudoers option is enabled (which is the case in the default configuration). Users wishing to preserve the original values should use a sudoers entry like: Defaults env_keep += HOME to preserve the old value of HOME and Defaults env_keep += MAIL to preserve the old value of MAIL. The change in handling of HOME is known to affect programs like pbuilder. -- Bdale Garbee Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:29:16 -0600 sudo (1.6.8p12-5) unstable; urgency=low The sudo package is no longer configured --with-exempt=sudo. If you depend on members of group sudo being able to run sudo without needing a password, you will need to put "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" in /etc/sudoers to preserve equivalent functionality. -- Bdale Garbee Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:13:39 -0600