Bug#895597: lintian: Please improve advice on fixing maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Neil,

> There are a lot of people waiting on this upstream release, a lot of
> other tasks outside Debian. The upstream release can't wait for this
> Debian bug to be fixed  […]
[…]
> A rushed fix to the current postinst is simply unacceptable.

I'm lost, sorry.. None of these prevents you uploading with an
"outstanding" Lintian warning, especially one with a bug such as
this one open. (Furthermore, this is not an autorejected tag, and
nor was any suggesting a slapdash fix AFAICT.)

> > > From the tag description (extended in bug #889489)
[…]
> > the tag was also extended in #895370 which might explain more
> 
> That is the same content as I've been looking at - I don't find
> anything useful in that bug report

(Sure, I was just throwing it in there as you reference #889489 and
not #895370.)


Regards,

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