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



On Thu, 04 Feb 2010, martin f krafft wrote:
> I can perfectly understand admins wanting to override package
> defaults, but not why the package maintainer needs to use
> dpkg-statoverride.

You need to use dpkg-statoverride when you are using a dynamic uid/gid
and files that you ship need to be setuid/setgid to that uid/gid, or
when you've got a sensible default of not setgid (or similar) but you
want that setting to be easily configurable via debconf.


Don Armstrong

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