Why is /etc/ppp mode 0750 root:dip in the ppp package? The individual files with passwords are not world readable, so I don't see the point of making the directory have those strage permissions. Is it a relic of an earlier time, or something we should maintain? Also, note that a lot of packages that drop a file into /etc/ppp just have the directory mode 755 root:root, so the end permissions of the directory are somewhat random (whichever package happens to be installed first). We should at least make this consitent, and I filed some bugs on some of those packages, but then couldn't think of why ppp gives the directory those perms exactly. I'm also considering a dh_installppp and/or making dh_fixperms do the right thing to that directory; but first I want to make sure I know what the right thing is and why. (All the bugs mentioned in the changelog entry for ppp 2.3.8-1 are not available for reference.) -- see shy jo
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