etckeeper: By-user traceability when run under sudo

[Thierry Carrez]

Binary package hint: etckeeper

In etckeeper all commits are tracked as being done by 'root'. On multi-admin systems, sudo allows by-user traceability and etckeeper should log the real user name rather than an anonymous 'root'.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Patch proposal pushed to Debian.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

This bug was fixed in the package etckeeper - 0.28ubuntu1

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etckeeper (0.28ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    * etckeeper.conf: Default to bzr
  * debian/control: Default to bzr as well (LP: #321809)

etckeeper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Support darcs. Thanks to Gian Piero Carrubba. Closes: #510032

etckeeper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use SUDO_USER as the committer if set. Closes: #498739
    (Thierry Carrez)
  * bzr: Avoid use of etckeeper pre-commit on Trees not on the
    filesystem. (Jelmer Vernooij)

etckeeper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add Japanese debconf translation. Closes: #512869
  * Prevent git from removing a directory when the last file in it
    has been removed, but the directory is left existing and empty,
    by touching a flag file before calling git rm. Closes: 513006

 -- Thierry Carrez <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:58:42 +0000