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Bug#538716: lintian: special cases for files from GNU libc



Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> writes:

> | # pt_chown must be setuid root, otherwise non-root users won't be able
> | # to login
> | libc6: setuid-binary usr/lib/pt_chown 4755 root/root

Why is that actually under /usr/lib? What uses it?

Under multiarch pt_chown must move into a libc-bin package or into the
multiarch /usr/lib/tripplet/ dir. The later would probably break it
horribly.

So to be sane it must move into libc-bin. It should also move to
/usr/bin or so.

MfG
        Goswin



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