Bug#167422: marked as done (general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable)
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Subject: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable
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Because files in /usr/share are expected to be shared, they should all
be world-readable.
It is unnecessarily inconvenient, for example, to accommodate
unreadable files when mirroring /usr/share or a portion of it to
another machine. I bet there are other good reasons, since it seems
like a sound principle.
I do not notice this requirement in the FHS, but it seems to me a
reasonable requirement for Debian, which could easily be realized with
the level of automation that the packaging process has
On my system today, the following files in /usr/share are not
world-readable:
% find /usr/share -not -perm -o=r
/usr/share/doc/squid/examples/squid.conf
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/tdtd/install.log
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/psgml/install.log
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/ilisp/install.log
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/debview/install.log
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/eudc/install.log
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/gnuserv/install.log
/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/python2.2-elisp/install.log
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On the advice in this thread, I have filed (or will soon file) related
bug reports under debian-policy, lintian, debhelper, and the
individual packages mentioned.
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