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Re: Bug#835516: General: Incorrect permissions on /bin for Debian Jessie



On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 04:50:27PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> El sábado 27 de agosto del 2016 a las 20:50:28 +0200,
> Santiago Vila escribió:
> > Reading the message by Adam carefully, this is a bug in sed.
> > 
> > I would hope the release managers would allow this to be fixed in a
> > point release.
> 
> Hi, Santiago.
> 
> Do you think it's a problem of sed specifically? Because Yves
> mentioned two other packages (lpe and ucspi-proxy) that could also
> change the permissions of /bin.

It is a problem in every package having wrong permissions, but sed is
always installed by default (it's even Essential: yes), while the
others are not.

So if we fix sed in jessie, new installs will probably have the /bin
directory fixed.

> What is not clear to me is why this happens in netinstall and not on
> LXC. Because I believe that in both cases the same package is installed.
> Or am I missing something? If you could clarify this, I would appreciate
> it.

Sorry, I don't know.


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