Bug#89473: [PROPOSAL] dpkg-statoverride and Conflicts: suidmanager (<< 0.50)

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.2.0
Severity: wishlist

The man page for dh_suidregister says that any package containing a
SUID/SGID binary no longer needs to use suidregister, instead, users
can use dpkg-statoverride as necessary.

Policy (section 11.9, "Permissions and Owners") doesn't talk about
either way, but it should mention that suidregister should no longer
be used; also, that packages previously using suidregister should
Conflict: with suidmanager (<< 0.50).

If I understand dpkg-statoverride correctly, mentioning that
dpkg-statoverride is not to be called from maintainer post/pre
install scripts should also be added.

Ben

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