Re: Bug#1135816: ppp has a directory metadata conflict on /etc/ppp/peers

[Chris Boot <bootc@debian.org>]

Hi Guillem, Helmut,

On 11/05/2026 10:32, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Hi Chris and Guillem,
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 08:28:25PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Wed, 2026-05-06 at 17:14:19 +0200, Chris Boot wrote:
> > > 2. In the pppd tarball, I will let/etc/ppp/peers/ be mode 0755, just
> > >     like it is in pppoe/wvdial/xtel. I believe that this should resolve
> > >     the dpkg file metadata conflict.
> > Hmm, I think I'd rather see the actual intended perms be part of the
> > tar metadata. More so given that I think this is a security sensitive
> > directory?
> I was telling Chris much the same and as he preferred the statoverride
> mechanism, I asked him to invite you for review.

So just for clarity on my part, what would the recommended way forwards 
be for ppp? Make /etc/ppp/peers be 0700 in the tarball _and_ add the 
statoverride as well? And at some point dpkg will figure out who "owns" 
/etc/ppp/peers to resolve the metadata conflict?

Cheers,
Chris

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Chris Boot
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