On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 18:02:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I would suggest that this bug should be closed, it certainly does not > appear to be a "general" bug because only one package creates that > directory and that package is creating it correctly AFAICT. > dpkg creates that directory, and dpkg ought to use the permissions from the package, regardless of umask, IMO. Cheers, Julien