Bug#161156: dpkg-statoverride file-mode not completely sanity-checked
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> tags 161156 + pending
> thanks
>
> Previously Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> > I used 'dpkg-statoverride --add' with symbolic permissions and it let
> > me get away with it. When dpkg next ran, it complained about that
> > entry.
>
> Nice catch, fixed it in CVS now.
Why not have it interpet the symbolic permissions?
For the nlist support, I have already copied a file from fileutils. Why not
copy the library file that interpets symbolic permissions?
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