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Re: request for guidance



On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 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?

Leave it in. There are still too many doubts and misuses of
dpkg-statoverride and sgid/suid bits, IMHO, to risk removing the warnings
from lintian.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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