Comment 4 for bug 10630

Dear Security team,

this bug report should have a Cc to you in the first place, excuse me
Bdale.

Frank Küster <email address hidden> wrote:

> Package: sudo
> Version: 1.6.6-1.2
> Severity: grave
>
> Since today's security update for woody, sudo spits out lots of
> "Looking at .." messages on stdout. This is not only extremely
> annoying for me - it also makes it harder to grep through the output
> of commands called via sudo, and breaks existing scripts
> (numofsomething=`sudo $command | wc -l`...)
>
> This is what it does here:
[...]

There are two other bugs on that which I didn't see before submitting
(#282777, #282778); I am not merging because these are "important", but
I think it should continue to be "grave" - it breaks existing local
scripts.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer