Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list
Brandon <winterknight@nerdshack.com> writes:
> As for setting permissions for files with dynamic ids, debian policy
> says that dpkg-statoverride is necessary. This is not true, or at least
> misleading. Certainly the post install script should check to make sure
> that there isn't any override in place before setting file permissions,
> but I think it would be better to set permissions with chown and chmod
> than dpkg-statoverride.
If you set the permissions with chown, aren't they overwritten every time
the package is upgraded and then have to be reset again, leaving windows
on every upgrade when they have the wrong permissions?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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