On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:00:18PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: > Of course I understand the standard files under doc/ (and even the whole > directory) are under dpkg's control (obviously the, changelog copyright, > etc.). But perhaps user's don't. Users don't have write access to anything under /usr in general (and /usr/share/doc in particular). If they did place files there, they must have done it after gaining root privs. I.e. they took deliberate steps to do something they should not under normal circumstances have been permitted to do. The user is clearly at fault here for writing "personal" data into a directory managed by the packaging system. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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