Bug#167422: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable
tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> This is incorrect. /usr/share is intended to be shared between
> cooperating systems, but cooperating systems' root users might well
> have secrets that they want to conveniently share.
/usr/share is not appropriate for that, as it is the OS's playground
(and I can't see any use for the OS installing secrets there).
For site-specific secrets /usr/local/share is a better choice.
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Robbe
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