Hello,
30 серп. 2013 02:09, "Nicolas Boulenguez" <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr> напис.
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> The policy does says that ALI files must be installed "r--r--r--".
>
> I hardly understand the practical difference with "rw-r--r--", the
> common practice for /usr/. The root user can circumvent the
> permissions anyway. If we want to warn him that he should not modify
> *.ali, why do we let him modify the sources or the compilation options
> in the project, invalidating the ali files and causing the same kind
> of problems?
>
The problem is that if GCC is run as root it could try to recompile
library files and change those ali files. It does not happen if those
files are read-only.
> I would like opinions about two independant suggestions.
> - the policy should enforce the same permissions for all installed files,
> not only ALI files.
> - these permissions should be "rw-r--r--" for least surprise.
>
> The subject may seem cosmetic, but debdiff considers this a
> difference, making its output quite hard to read.
>
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