Re: request for guidance
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:50:21AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> Since suidregister was removed, packages are now allowed to ship items with the
> set[gs]id flag on. This is currently a lintian warning. I have considered
> removing it (and bugs ask me to do so) however I am not sure it is the right
> thing to do. The warning lets the developer know that they are shipping
> possibly hazardous/security threatening/will cause bugs later items. So, do I
> leave it and let people use overrides? Or do i remove them and hope the rest
> of debian does not miss an accidental permission setting from upstream?
I think overrides are best.
It makes sure people know exactly what is suid/sgid in the file.
Also makes it easy to see which files are suid/sgid in that package.
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Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu>
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