Re: statoverride implemented

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

> 
> This has an advantage over suidmanager: there is no longer a delay
> between when a file is created, and when its status can be changed
> in the postinst. This also means a slight change in how to use
> this: in order to be really useful an override needs to be added
> before the package is extracted. In other words it must be doing
> in the preinst or debconf-stage.
> 

I thought you said the idea behind this was that the packages didn't need
to specify perms to the override? IOW, the package just contains what it
is supposed to, and the user provides overrides. That way, there is no
need for any package to run this command at all.

Ben

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