Bug#1126353: sudo (in trixie) does not read sudoers.d files with colons in file name

On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 01:57:45PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 at 16:56, Marc Haber
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> whether we should, while a
>> technical solution is pending, add language regarding #1126085 to the
>> trixie release notes (and maybe also to the bookworm release notes) t
>
>It looks like upstream is fixing this with
>https://git.sudo.ws/sudo/commit/?id=ff0b6bebceec5c7d01fd296300125d51325c6ff4
>so maybe no need for the release-notes to add and then delete it?

Yes, right. The patch applies cleanly to what we have in Trixie, so I 
can go with a stable point release update. Unupdated trixie will still 
be affected, so it might make sense to have the release note anyway.

>However, this seems to be something to do with : being interpreted as
>a  list (sometimes?), which might make the release-notes on its own --
> this seems missing from sudoers(5) in trixie
>(i wonder if this is going to cause other surprising changes, where
>the user asks for "A:B" but sudo silently uses A and B.  this all
>seems like needless complexity to me. and how can the user put a file
>with : in a list?)

At the moment I cannot comment on this.

Greetings
Marc