The time for repository upload is approaching...

Since, I am only a humble amateur coder, I still have not figured out
how to create a proper Debian source package. This means, I will have
to create a tar.gz archive as follows:

source-tarball.tar.gz
|
|-------cli-backend------------backend.c
|
|-------network-manager (lazarus project source files as created by Lazarus)


However, I would like to learn to use the maintainer tools to avoid
doing it manually. Ideally, dpkg-buildpackage should be able to build
a .deb package out of the sources without any other intervention, but
those are my current limits.

Please be aware that no pre-installation and post-installation scripts
will be included. If you want me to write those, it will be yet
another challenge.

Edward

On 20/08/2015, John Morris <jmorris@???> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 06:48 +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> The backends can be integrated into one single executable not to
>> clutter the sudoers file and to increase system efficiency.
>
> One suggestion here. Forget sudo and just make the backend suid root
> like other system utilities of this type. Just make darned sure there
> is no way to feed it command line input that could allow a root exploit
> of course. It can check whatever permissions like ownership of the
> local console/display, membership in wheel, etc. are desired to restrict
> usage to only some users itself. Maintaining rules in sudoers is less
> packagable even now that there is a /etc/sudoers.d directory to dump
> fragments into.
>