Bug#889066: lintian should warn if the maintainer scripts include "chown -R" or "chmod -R"

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Raphael,

> you do not suggest any alternative (how do I fix change
> permissions/ownership securely?)

Indeed, as the consensus is still not clear at this point. Do you
have any suggestions for such a text?

> Please try to be a bit more restrictive in what new tags you are
> accepting.

You seem to be implying this is a pattern. If so, please could you
provide some other examples so I could understand better?

This was a judgement call based on the severity of the problem (it,
after all, had a CVE). Personally I'd rather have a check for such
an issue that had an incomplete long description than not have the
check at all. Clearly, this would not apply to a trivial or even a
normal issue..


Best wishes,

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