Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list

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Subject: Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list
From: Brandon <winterknight@nerdshack.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:37:39 -0800
Message-id: <20100203153739.02d716f2@nerdshack.com>
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> leaving windows on every upgrade when they have the wrong permissions?

Oh. I know what this means now. I was thinking of glass windows. Or
maybe MS Windows. There is no point in time where the user would have
the wrong permissions, as long as the package scripts are done
correctly.

-Brandon

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- Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list
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- Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list
  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>

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